Kerberos Delegation thru Windows' ISAPI?

[vadim]

Hi Michael,

If I understood you correctly your goal is to trigger from MS IIS something 
written in java using kerberos authentication. I would suggest you to put 
together a servlet in tomcat and make IIS to authenticate itself against this 
servlet using SPNEGO. 

Most probably you will have to develop SPNEGO authenticator in Tomcat 
yourself. I was looking for this thing a while ago in inet, and could not 
find anything meaningfull, and therefore I have developed something similar 
myself. 

What you will have to do in such case, is to extract GSSAPIv2 tokens from 
SPNEGO tokens which you will receive from IIS, or otherwise build SPNEGO 
tokens from GSSAPIv2 tokens provided by sun GSSAPIv2 implementation. That's 
you will need an API to parse DER encoded ASN.1 structures, or otherwise 
encode ASN.1 structures. 

Even for this you will have troubles to find meaningfull API unless you can 
use IAIK. If you have to stay "opensource" you may probably want to try 
www.bouncycastle.org, they claim to have library to work with ASN.1 
structures.

Best regards, vadim tarassov

On Friday 08 September 2006 00:20, Michael B Allen wrote:
> I have a Kerberos delegation issue caused by the separation of IIS worker
> processes and the Tomcat web server process on Windows.
>
> Specifically, I have a customer running Tomcat through ISAPI
> on Windows with ISS using Integrated Windows Authentication
> (Kerberos). Authentication is working. The getRemoteUser method returns
> the user's expected identity. Delegation is working. An ASP can use
> the clients credentials to request another protected page on a second
> IIS server. Note, impersonation is not used in any way shape or form
> (nor would it work).
>
> I put together a Kerberos capable HTTP client and tried to invoke it
> through the IIS authenticated Servlet. This does not work. The JGSS
> routines cannot find the delegated ticket (TGT).
>
> Can anyone guess as to why this is?
>
> My thinking is that even though the Tomcat process and IIS workers are
> running under the same service account Tomcat servlets do not have
> access to the IIS worker's credential cache because the credential
> cache is per-logon session and IIS creates a new logon session with each
> authentication. Does this sound right? I can't find any documentation
> about this scenario.
>
> My next thought was to export the security context but someone just
> posted a message that indicated Sun's Java doesn't support exporting
> the credential. If that's true I guess I'm toast?
>
> It would be a nice feature if Tomcat's ISAPI dll used
> LsaGetLogonSessionData and similar in the IIS worker to get any TGT
> present and ship it over to the Tomcat worker so Java can get to it. A
> lot of shops are MS SSO only and don't want a separate container for Java.
>
> Mike