if we have a talk about ssh, we love to heard somebody cover this
authentication stuff with kerberos. I'm too used to classic ssh keys and
firefox remembering my incredibly complicated password, I really only
want to type it in twice per 6 months, when the state required (OIT
implemented) requires me to set a new one. Just not every day.  I never
figured it out, and haven't found a good writeup what's really going on
here. 

On [Thu Jan 31 11:10], Eric Sturdivant wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Mathias Stearn wrote:
> 
> >Its not specifically blocked, its just not possible with the AFS
> >setup. The key is stored on your home directory which the machine you
> >are sshing into doesnt have direct acess to since it is stored over
> >AFS. When you login the server gets a kerberos ticket/token on your
> >behalf, and THEN uses that to access your homedir.
> >
> >see http://www.csic.umd.edu/linuxlab/faq.html#SSH for more info.
> 
> If you have a kerberos enabled ssh client you can get password-less login 
> to work by using kerberos tickets rather than ssh keys for authentication.
> 
> The ssh_config(5) options you want are:
> 
>      GSSAPIAuthentication
>           Specifies whether user authentication based  on  GSSAPI
>           is  allowed.   The  default  is ``no''.  Note that this
>           option applies to protocol version 2 only.
> 
>      GSSAPIDelegateCredentials
>           Forward (delegate)  credentials  to  the  server.   The
>           default  is  ``no''.   Note that this option applies to
>           protocol version 2 only.
> 
> But at that point, you can also just install the afs client and get at 
> your files directly.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Eric Sturdivant
> University of Maryland
> Office of Information Technology
> Distributed Computing Services

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