[EXTERNAL] using kerberos to authenticate for a web api

[Nebergall, Christopher]

mod_auth_kerb works, most of the updates nowadays come from Redhat and others within a specific linux distro.  So you can install using your distro specific package manager.   I believe redhat puts their patches in the srpms if want to compile their latest for a different platform.

>>and it would require me to have API clients deal with SPNEGO.

It validates Kerberos passwords ie, basic auth, and regular Kerberos GSSAPI, and SPNEGO GSSAPI. 

-Christopher
-----Original Message-----
From: kerberos-bounces at mit.edu [mailto:kerberos-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Chris Hecker
Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 1:23 AM
To: kerberos at mit.edu
Subject: [EXTERNAL] using kerberos to authenticate for a web api


I use kerberos for my authn system, including direct krb5 calls from my 
game, CoSign for webpage SSO, etc.  At some point, I'd like to make the 
metrics from my game available in a web API, and I'd like to 
authenticate these API users with the same kerberos system.  What's the 
best way to do this?  Most APIs are authenticated with OAuth these days, 
but I don't see any turnkey hookup for Kerberos and OAuth.  I found this 
old thing:

http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-hardjono-oauth-kerberos-01.txt

There's mod_auth_kerb, but it hasn't been updated in a long time (maybe 
it just works?), and it would require me to have API clients deal with 
SPNEGO.

Any advice here?

Thanks,
Chris

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