While I can’t give you details, it sounds like you want to change the web application to use SPNEGO to do Kerberos authentication with a user; this gives you a credential that you can then use to authenticate to Hadoop.
From: Aneela Saleem <ane...@platalytics.com> Date: Monday, July 18, 2016 at 11:13 To: Brandon Allbery <ballb...@sinenomine.net> Cc: "kerberos@mit.edu" <kerberos@mit.edu> Subject: Re: Login usecase Thanks Brandon for your response. Actually, My use-case is that I have a web application that authenticates a user. Then user calls my backend services written in java to interact with hadoop cluster. My hadoop cluster is kerberos-enabled. I need to authenticate this user using my java code. I am able to login using keytab files, but i did not get someway to login using password. For logging in using keytab files, we need to place keytab files for all the system users on all the hosts from where we can access our hadoop cluster. So this is the main drawback. And as you say logging using keytab files is not appropriate then how can we achieve this objective? Thanks On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 7:45 PM, Brandon Allbery <ballb...@sinenomine.net<mailto:ballb...@sinenomine.net>> wrote: You are going to have to describe what you are trying to do in more detail. Keytabs are not normally used for this purpose, except in the case of automated procedures (e.g. cron) that need to log in to a service as if they are a user. Perhaps you have confused keytabs (“passwords” on disk) with ccaches (ephemeral service credentials, which may or may not be on disk and typically expire in a relatively short time)? On 7/17/16, 16:04, "kerberos-boun...@mit.edu<mailto:kerberos-boun...@mit.edu> on behalf of Aneela Saleem" <kerberos-boun...@mit.edu<mailto:kerberos-boun...@mit.edu> on behalf of ane...@platalytics.com<mailto:ane...@platalytics.com>> wrote: Hi all, If a user logs into any kerberized Application, using Krb5LoginModule, there is a function loginFromKeyTab. Client should have the key tab file to login to application. But I think this is very insecure way of login. Anyone who cloud access your key tab file then login to application. Is there any appropriate way to login to system. I don't understand How to do this. I'm stuck Thanks ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu<mailto:Kerberos@mit.edu> https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
