Kerberos keytab

Da Rock rock_on_the_web at comcen.com.au
Mon Nov 10 21:14:49 PST 2008


On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 14:17 +0100, Mel wrote:
> On Monday 10 November 2008 13:53:41 Da Rock wrote:
> 
> 
> > Check the kerberos site for further, more accurate info, and run a
> > google search for browser kerberos auth with apache. You do need the
> > right module for apache to achieve this though- mod_auth_kerb. Some only
> > offer a link between apache and kdc with base64 encryption.
> 
> Non-related to the OP's problem, but base64 is a transport encoding and not 
> encryption. It is used as 7-bit transport for 8bit (or more) data, like 
> attachments (email) and form uploads (web).
> 

Good to know the difference, but that still seems very poor against the
kerberos security available. Good to know that the newer browsers are
addressing this issue...



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