Role Based Access Control how-to with Kerberos and JAAS?

Ken Hornstein kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Mon Dec 15 01:08:58 EST 2003


>   I can successfully use JAAS against a Kerberos KDC to authenticate 
>principals, but is there a way to define both users and groups to which 
>those users belong in Kerberos such that when a user (bob) authenticates 
>successfully, it returns all of the principals for "bob" like "manager, 
>user" so that I can set my Java Policy file at a higher level of 
>granularity than the individual user.  It is not obvious to me how to do 
>that with the kerberos admin commands.

I guess my first question is ... what's a Kerberos "group"?

--Ken


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