How does IE handle Kerberos authentication??

Pitrich, Karl karl.pitrich at fabasoft.com
Fri Jul 9 10:04:27 EDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-07-08 at 23:39, Gerald (Jerry) Carter wrote:
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> Keshav Prasad wrote:
> | Hi,
> |
> |     I am developing a client which does kerberos authentication to a
> | kerberos enabled server. Can anyone please explain how actually
> | Internet Explorer handles the Kerberos authentication procedure. I
> | want to know how IE comes to know about the KDC server which the
> | kerberized service will be using, so that it can get the service
> | tickets from this KDC. Can anyone please provide some links to
> | resources which explain how this mechanism is implemented by IE..
> 
> This might help -- http://modgssapache.sourceforge.net/


the authentication method is GSS-SPNEGO.


this module is well better for apache:   
  http://modauthkerb.sourceforge.net/


a full client impl. for gss-spnego for mozilla is available at:
  http://negotiateauth.mozdev.org/




 / pit



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