gss_accept_sec_context fails intermittently

Edward Murrell edward at murrell.co.nz
Tue Jan 22 00:45:13 EST 2008


No to try and rain on your parade but...

Wouldn't it be easier to use the standard mod_auth_kerb lib and write an
apple only directory service apache module (if it doesn't already
exist), and set up the auth kerb as non-authoritative?

Cheers
Edward


On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 10:55 -0700, Nathan Mellis wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I am writing a module for Apache that does Kerberos authentication as  
> well as providing Basic authentication as a fallback and authorization  
> via Apple's Directory Services.  I have followed both Apple's sample  
> code and the code from mod_auth_kerb and think I've got my mind  
> wrapped around the whole process.  I am running into a problem though  
> where gss_accept_sec_context will sometimes return properly and let  
> everything go through.  Other times it will return with a major error  
> of "851968" (Unexpected error) and a minor error of "0" (No error).   
> Needless to say, this has me somewhat stumped.  Does anyone know where  
> else I can look to see what exactly it is not liking on the times that  
> it fails?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Nathan Mellis
> Application Developer
> Mission Aviation Fellowship
> nmellis at maf.org
> 
> 
> 
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