Adam Rybicki wrote:
> Michael Ströder wrote:
>> Andrew Ralph Feller, afelle1 wrote:
>>   
>>> Have you looked into using AD + Kerberos instead of AD + LDAP?  We have
>>> done AD + LDAP in the past and currently do AD + Kerberos due to our AD
>>> administrators preferences; also it doesn’t require us to use a service
>>> account.
>>>     
>> IMO SPNEGO/Kerberos requires a service account for the CAS server.
> 
> Andrew didn't say anything about using SPNEGO--just Kerberos
> authentication to AD.  In my experience this never required a special AD
> account.

So I assume what's called "Kerberos authentication" in this context is
mainly doing a kinit with username and password? But then you loose one
of the main advantages of Kerberos: Not transmitting the user's
clear-text password anywhere.

Ciao, Michael.
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