Why not use a proxy that authenticates to AD?

On 27/02/09 00:55, "Bob Doolittle" <[email protected]> wrote:

> CJ Keist wrote:
>> Bob,
>>    Thanks for the reply.  This is the situation that has come down the
>> pipes.  We have sun kiosk stations around campus set up as open with
>> just a web browser running.  They now want to authenticate users
>> before giving them a kiosk session.  This is to cut down the number of
>> non-student types camping out at the kiosk stations.
>>    The problem I have is all central user accounts here are stored in
>> Windows AD.  The central IT folks will not touch AD.  So no NIS UNIX
>> extensions, and no third party app to sync AD with UNIX LDAP server.
>> So only option I have is a web auth tool the central IT folks have for
>> me to use. Hence why I was asking if AMGH could get password info.
>>    Is there a way to evoke a AMGH style redirect to a DTU from say my
>> own little Java app that could be run in the kiosk session?  My java
>> app would prompt for the user name password and then I can use the web
>> auth tools to authenticate and then redirect to a kiosk server if
>> pass, or a more internet restricted kiosk server if not.
> 
> There are a couple of ways you could go with this. I'd think that the
> best would be to call pam_authenticate from some JNI code inside of your
> Java app, *after* authenticating with AD. Create your own custom PAM
> stack/service in /etc/pam.conf (or pam.d if this is Linux) that simply
> has pam_sunray_amgh on the stack. I've never tried this, obviously, but
> I *think* it should work :). It'll probably have a side effect of
> blowing away the session running your Java app when done, but that may
> be what you want anyway. I'd love to hear if this works for you.
> 
> The other course is to roll your own. It's not that hard to write your
> own code to look up the smartcard->user ->host mappings and then just
> call utswitch.
> 
> -Bob
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Bob Doolittle wrote:
>>> CJ Keist wrote:
>>>> Is it possible to get user password with AMGH?  Right now it looks
>>>> like AMGH scripts get called when you have user name but no password
>>>> info. Is there way to get user password info using AMGH?
>>> 
>>> No. That seems like a very bad idea from a security POV. You might
>>> almost as well use Kiosk mode, or disable passwords.
>>> 
>>> -Bob
>>> 
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