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Re: Forwarding Kerberos Credentials - SSH

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry B. Hotz)
Fri Jun 20 14:35:45 2003

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At 4:52 AM -0400 6/20/03, kerberos-request@mit.edu wrote:
>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 20:21:18 -0700
>From: Frank Cusack <fcusack@fcusack.com>
>To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
>Subject: Re: Forwarding Kerberos Credentials - SSH
>  > Secondly I think the term "forwarding" doesn't apply to the scenarios
>>  I'm reading about here.  If you log in to sshd with your Kerberos
>>  password, the remote credentials acquired in the process are actually
>>  local in this sense - they reside on the host that acquired them, as
>
>Right.  That's not what the poster wants.  That's not kerberos
>authentication, that's password authentication.
>
>>  sshd did that.  When used to authenticate to some service from there,
>>  that's just simple basic Kerberos authentication, no forwarding needed.
>
>The original poster wants to login LOCALLY with krb5, ssh to a remote
>machine with KERBEROS authentication; the forwarding is needed so that
>on the remote machine he can subsequently obtain tickets for xyz service
>(say, afs).
>
>/fc

"Me Too" (TM)

So, is that possible?

Ideally, is it possible in an application that only talks generic 
SSL, so that it could in turn call a module that made use of the tgt? 
(The thread is sshd, but I'm thinking maybe 
Apache/{PHP,Perl}/{Postgres,AFS}.)
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Henry.B.Hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu
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