On Jul 14,  7:10am, Michael R. Beddingfield wrote:

> Like Iowa State, we also hacked httpd to authenticate to the ka server,
> but with a slight twist.  We make every user authenticate right now.  We
> want to allow public info to be available without a login, and will
> probably do what Iowa did for the server to get around the
> system:anyuser problem for these files.
>
> BTW: We are using AFS's KA server...Mic
>-- End of excerpt from Michael R. Beddingfield

How do you get users authenticate?  Do user provide password through http form
and network?  If so, do password go through the net in clear, or you use things
like SSL?  If passwords are sent in clear on the network. don't we lose the
main purpose of Kerberos authentication?

Shyh-Wei Luan



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