How to Kerberize an application

Phillip Pfaffman prp at alumni.caltech.edu
Wed Feb 10 00:13:49 EST 2010


On 2/8/2010 10:20 AM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 20:11 -0500, prp at ALUMNI.CALTECH.EDU wrote:
>    
>> I'm looking for a tutorial (ideally) that would describe how to modify
>> an existing service, at the point where connection is made to its
>> listener by a prospective client, to support the Kerberos protocol. In
>> fact it would describe how both client and server must prepare their
>> respective portions of the dialogue, or condition the states of their
>> processes, with references to appropriate GSS-API or Kerberos API
>> calls.
>>      
> It might not be at quite the level you want, but this may be of use:
>
>    http://kerberos.org/software/appskerberos.pdf
>
> The sample GSSAPI application (src/appl/gss-sample in the Kerberos
> sources) may be instructive at a lower level.
>
>
>
>    
Well, the reference you have given is certainly something I would have 
asked for if I had known how. At the level of my question the sample is 
instructive. Thank you very much.



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