Christoph Müller <[email protected]> writes:

> 3. I could use AUKS. From what I understand, AUKS has no built-in SGE
> support, but you must forward the ticket in a client-side
> JSV. However, it does not require me to enable afs/kerberos/... in
> bootstrap, right?

You have to enable GSSAPI security if you want to use that hook, but it
probably needs a dummy to "verify" the "ticket" it should output if you
don't use it for authentication -- and if you don't authenticate,
credentials can probably be stolen on compute hosts.

> 5. The Kerberos integration mentioned in
> http://arc.liv.ac.uk/repos/darcs/sge/source/security/gss/doc/gss_customer.html:
> I am not sure whether this describes the integration "that never
> worked"?

No, though I'm not sure how all the hooks for GSSAPI security ever
worked reliably.  The "Kerberos" support requires linking against a
Kerberos library as opposed to running independent sub-programs.

I'd forgotten that the security_mode setting for the GSSAPI method is
"kerberos" (or, equivalently, "dce"), which is distinct from the
non-working attempted "full Kerberos" stuff.

For what it's worth, GSSAPI need not use Kerberos (though the shipped
programs are somewhat Kerberos/DCE-specific).  Also the SGE hooks for it
could work for something other than GSSAPI by replacing the distributed
versions of get_cred and friends.

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