What if we use Kerberos authentication, can we authenticate an external user 
through Kerberos with REST API?

On your website, it mentioned if we use application level authentication, a 
user can be authenticated by Kerberos and a Kerberos session ticket is used at 
a time determined by the App Server to authenticate the user to access 
MarkLogic Server.
The user must exist in MarkLogic, where the user's 'external name' matches the 
Kerberos User Principal.

We have a web application that users can access, and we'd like to make REST 
calls from the web application to MarkLogic, can a user be authenticated 
through Kerberos so we can restrict a user's access to certain documents based 
on their account?

Thanks,

Cynthia Jiang
RDA Corp


From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason Hunter
Sent: Thursday, May 7, 2015 9:56 PM
To: MarkLogic Developer Discussion
Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] external auth

Be very careful in putting the REST API on a port with public access.  If you 
do, anyone with database credentials will be able to have direct access to the 
database.  The REST API isn't intended for public exposure.  Same as an XDBC 
port, it's for internal access.

-jh-

On May 8, 2015, at 1:40 AM, David Ennis 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:


HI.

This type of scenario seems very possible with the Enhanced HTTP erver 
configuration options available in Version 8. One of the most obvious 
out-of-the-box benefits of the new server rewrite engine is the fact that you 
need not have a separate port for your web app and REST API, for example. 
Consider also that you have control over quite a bit - including switching 
module databases and content databases as part of the rewrite rules - which may 
be of benefit to you for what you describe.

http://developer.marklogic.com/features/enhanced-http







Kind Regards,
David Ennis


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On 7 May 2015 at 17:28, cyanline llc 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Hello,
   Looking for a bit of philosophical help here. We're deploying
rest-apps with Roxy to one site. We have built a second site where users
register, login, and perform a number of actions. Then, when the user is
ready to use the marklogic rest-app, we pass them from the second site
to the marklogic site.
   We would like that the user need not authenticate themselves again
*and* that a user only has access to their rest-app, but not the others.
   With this current setup, we can see that we either need to pass the
session data from one server to another, or have a third-party server
track and share session data with the other 2 servers (ie ldap).
   Is ldap the way to go or are we way off with this current setup/there
is a better way to do this?

Thank you

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