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Re: Pending "gss_init_sec_context() failed: Unspecified GSS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Douglas E. Engert)
Wed Jan 13 15:36:33 2010

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From: "Douglas E. Engert" <deengert@anl.gov>
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Sylvain RICHET wrote:
> Hi Douglas,
> 
>>   Have you tried Wireshark or other analyzer to see what might be going on?
> Yes, a lot.
> 
>>   Do you have a krb5.conf file?
> Yes of course, there is a krb5.conf file on client machine.
> 
>>   Does the web server support GSS? What is the server?
> Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu), with mod_auth_kerb.
> I suppose that, whether Apache2 can plug a kerberos module, then it
> supports GSS ?...
> 
>>   Does the client have user credentials? (klist)
> 1) The client have the keytab with the entry concerning the targeted
> service.

The client should *not* have the keytab, the web server has to have
the keytab with an HTTP/fqdn.of.server@realm principal.


> 2) The client user has credentials in KDC. On KDC server, kinit
> (user) / klist commands show the user.

What does klist on client show? The user on the client has to
have have tickets, usually by kinit, login (pam_krb5) or ssh delegation.


> 
>>   Have you posted the problem on modauthkerb-h...@lists.sourceforge.net
>>   (I expect most of the people are on this list too.)
> I subscribed last week, and  I have already tried to... but i'm "read-
> only" on that list
> (how to get POST authorization ? i don't know...)
> 
>>   Since you built FireFox, what code did it use for the native-gsslib?
>>   Is it Java?
> sorry, I don't understand what you mean because i do not have any
> specific idea on how it works.

I thought you said you complied FireFox. I was asking does FireFox
use its own Kerberos libraries, of Java versions of Kerberos?


> I just noticed there's an "negotiateauth" to enable... (if not yet
> enable in Firefox Ubuntu version !)

What "negotiateauth"???

Do you mean in the about:config page, one of the network.negotiate-auth.*
options? Or is this something else?

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