Enrique Rodriguez wrote:
Matthew J. Smith wrote:
Hello-
I dug this email address ([email protected]) out of the
Change Password Provider source. I was hoping you could answer a
question for me: is there a Change Password Client implementation,
written in Java?
Not that we know of, though we've looked and we'd love to have one!
There's a client for Linux called 'gnome-kerberos' that can do kpasswd
(in addition to regular kerberos). I'm not sure if it's still under
development but you can get it off apt.
$ apt-get install gnome-kerberos
Essentially, I am looking for a FOSS Java class implementing the
equivalent of the standard kpasswd or kadmin tools, so that I can
write a tomcat hosted web-based password change form for our MIT
Kerberos Realm. I was hoping to find such an implementation within
the Change Password Provider, perhaps even as a unit test, but I have
not. If the Apache Software Foundation does not have such an
implementation, I would be much appreciative if you could share any
knowledge of non-Apache implementations.
We test with gnome-kerberos and Windows Security. But no Java client.
Also you better look into a client side applet for updating the password
if you want to use a browser. If you pass the password info through the
web then you defeat the entire purpose for using changepw. It's
essentially insecure.
Alex
