[Cosign-discuss] fall through authentication of primary factors?

2015-02-06 Thread Liam Hoekenga
So, I know the answer is probably "use the PAM primary factor", but Currently, our authoritative authentication source is kerberos. We're looking at making our IDM the authoritative source (and it would push password changes out to krb, AD, etc). We could point cosign at the IDM LDAP interfa

Re: [Cosign-discuss] cosign 3.2.0 does not build without patching on Apache 2.4.6, new release soon?

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Boutell
Thanks for the pointers. It would be a lot more approachable to do new implementations of cosign if there were a spec document like this one: http://jasig.github.io/cas/development/protocol/CAS-Protocol-Specification.html One of the key differences between Cosign and CAS seems to be the implement

Re: [Cosign-discuss] cosign 3.2.0 does not build without patching on Apache 2.4.6, new release soon?

2015-02-06 Thread Liam Hoekenga
While its a different configuration option from the vhost's SSL setting, they don't have to be separate certificates (as long as the cosign server recognizes the CA that signed the browser facing cert) Liam On Friday, February 6, 2015, Tom Boutell wrote: > Thanks for the pointers. It would be a

Re: [Cosign-discuss] cosign 3.2.0 does not build without patching on Apache 2.4.6, new release soon?

2015-02-06 Thread Mark Montague
On 2015-02-06 17:11, Tom Boutell wrote: > One of the key differences between Cosign and CAS seems to be the > implementation of separate SSL certificates for Cosign's back-channel. > I'm curious what the improvement in security is there. It could be > left over from the era when the public sites mi

Re: [Cosign-discuss] cosign 3.2.0 does not build without patching on Apache 2.4.6, new release soon?

2015-02-06 Thread Tom Boutell
Interesting. In the CAS scheme, the login server redirects the browser back to the client website, with a unique ticket. The client website then calls back to the login server to verify the ticket is legitimate, and the login server responds with the username and other metadata. Since the login se

Re: [Cosign-discuss] cosign 3.2.0 does not build without patching on Apache 2.4.6, new release soon?

2015-02-06 Thread Mark Montague
On 2015-02-06 20:22, Tom Boutell wrote: > Since the login server never redirects with a ticket to any site but > one of its whitelisted client websites, and always with https, and the > client website always uses https to call back to the login server, I > don't see a risk of man-in-the-middle atta