On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:57 PM, sol myr <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks very-very much
> (saved me hours of banging my head against the wall).


So does that mean you need CAS or no? ;-)



>
>
> --- On *Wed, 2/11/09, Scott Battaglia <[email protected]>* wrote:
>
> From: Scott Battaglia <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [cas-user] CAS + Kerberos integration ?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 1:28 PM
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:17 PM, sol myr <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Thanks very much for replying.
>>
>> Sorry for being vague - we'd like the client to obtain a Kerberos ticket,
>> use it to log into the SSO server, which would validate the Kerberos ticket
>> and then allow the client to access the business application.
>>
>> When the SSO server is specifically CAS, it feels like lots of indirection
>> and round-trips (involving both Kerberos ticket *and* CAS TGC)...
>
>
> Actually, you'll present your Kerberos ticket to CAS, which will validate
> it and generate its own internal session identifier, which is the TGC.  From
> that point forward whenever a service uses CAS, it will be issued a one time
> Service Ticket.  No further Kerberos or Ticket Granting Tickets are created.
>
>
>>
>> So I wondered whether it's really what people do (assuming they want
>> Kerberos)?
>
> I'm not sure I follow your question.  You either need to configure all of
> your applications to utilize Kerberos authentication, or to use CAS for
> authentication.
>
>>
>> Or is there some magical "trick" to issue only one ticket (kerberos) and
>> skip the extra TGC? If nothing else, maybe configure CAS to work like
>> ticket-less SOO servers (say, josso)...?
>
>
> If you only want a Kerberos ticket, then why aren't you just using
> Kerberos?  The TGC isn't extra.  Its the internal CAS identifier for your
> session.
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks again.
>>
>>
>> --- On *Wed, 2/11/09, Scott Battaglia <[email protected]>* wrote:
>>
>> From: Scott Battaglia <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [cas-user] CAS + Kerberos integration ?
>> To: [email protected]
>> Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009, 6:59 AM
>>
>> You'll need clarification from your security people on what Kerberos
>> authentication actually means.
>>
>> If you need each application to speak to Kerberos directly, then CAS won't
>> help you.  If you need CAS to speak to Kerberos, you can either use SPNEGO
>> (if you use a Windows system) or the JAAS module to speak to Kerberos and
>> then all of your applications would just speak to CAS.
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 8:30 AM, sol myr <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>  Hi,
>>>
>>> We are evaluation CAS.
>>> Our security guys require Kerberos authentication (note: all our machines
>>> are Windows, servers and clients alike).  Now we were wondering: how does
>>> CAS support Kerberos, exactly?  In particular :
>>>
>>> Is it possible/customary to configure CAS to use Kerberos tickets
>>> *instead* of CAS tickets? Or is it Kerberos tickets *in addition* to CAS
>>> tickets (so that the client first obtains a kerberos ticket, which
>>> CAS-server validates and then issues a CAS TGC )?
>>>
>>> Thanks very much.
>>>
>>>
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