Macintosh Safari Browser and IIS with Kerberos

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Fri Dec 5 09:42:54 EST 2003


>>>>> "Tim" == Tim Alsop <Tim.Alsop at cybersafe.ltd.uk> writes:

    Tim> We now have authentication to IIS working with Max OSX
    Tim> 10.3. However, we cannot find a way to get Safari to forward
    Tim> credentials to IIS. The initial tgt is forwardable, but it is
    Tim> not being forwarded ... I can see that normally a Safari user
    Tim> would only want to allow their web server application
    Tim> determine their identity and this is clearly working, but our
    Tim> needs are beyond that since we want the IIS application to
    Tim> use the users credentials to setup a security context with a
    Tim> third-tier ...  Tim.

Handling authorization for this is non-trivial.  You definitely don't
want to give out your TGT to any random web server you contact.


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