Kerberos and Apache reverse proxy

[Dmitri Pal]

Hello,

You can use an older package called mod_auth_kerb.
It is not recommended as mod_auth_gssapi much better but if you distro does
not have it you might not have a choice.

Thanks
Dmitri

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 8:25 PM, Jaap Winius <jwinius at umrk.nl> wrote:

>
> Quoting Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com>:
>
> It should not. The Kerberos authenticated users should just map to existing
>> users.
>> See mod_auth_gssapi for more details.
>> https://github.com/modauthgssapi/mod_auth_gssapi/blob/master/README
>>
>
> It's great to hear that a solution like this exists, but as my luck would
> have it, mod_auth_gssapi, which is included in the Debian package
> libapache2-mod-auth-gssapi, is not available for Debian wheezy, and this is
> the OS that my MediaWiki server is still running on. So currently, if I
> access the MediaWiki server directly, all is fine. But if I attempt to
> access it through the proxy, the proxy's Apache error.log says:
>
>   [Sat Jul 14 00:44:41.794483 2018] [access_compat:error] [pid 25847]
> [client 72.85.26.20:39214] \
>   AH01797: client denied by server configuration: proxy:
> http://192.168.20.22/mediawiki
>
> While over on the backend MediaWiki server, the Apache error.log says:
>
>   [Sat Jul 14 01:44:41 2018] [error] [client 185.57.111.47]
> gss_accept_sec_context() failed: \
>   Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information (, )
>
> It looks like this is where I could really use mod_auth_gssapi on the
> backend, but alas. Might anyone know of a workaround, or another package
> that I could use instead?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jaap
>
>


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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Engineering Director, Identity Management and Platform Security
Red Hat, Inc.