Announcing mod_auth_gssapi

[Chris Hecker]

By being gss-only, do you mean the module, or clients must use gss as well?

Chris
 On Aug 14, 2014 3:24 PM, "Russ Allbery" <eagle at eyrie.org> wrote:

> Simo Sorce <simo at redhat.com> writes:
>
> > I have recently released a new module for Apache called mod_auth_gssapi
> > to modernize a little bit on the ancient and substantially unmaintained
> > mod_auth_kerb.
>
> > The code is here on github[1] for now, and packages will soon be
> > available for Fedora (and any other distro that wants to pick it up).
>
> > Highlights are:
> > - uses exclusively GSSAPI  calls
> > - requires a modern MIT Kerberos version (at least 1.11)
> > - supports storing a bearer token in a secure, http-only, session cookie
> > automatically to avoid multiple round-trips in applications
> > - support enforcing the use of a TLS connection
> > - experimental support for channel bindings (depends on an unaccepted
> > Apache patch and browser support).
> > - optionally exports delegated credentials to support s4u2proxy based
> > operations in web applications
>
> > I had fun coding this, which started as an experiment on a boring plane
> > trip, I hope it can be of use to others.
>
> Oh, excellent!  I'd been meaning to do the same thing for years and never
> got to it, so I'm very glad you did.  That sounds very interesting!  Thank
> you!
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (eagle at eyrie.org)              <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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