Ludovic Dubost wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If you setup an authentication which correctly sets the REMOTE_USER 
> field then you should be able to use it with XWiki. You can then use the 
> AppServerTrustedAuthentication module to accept your user and create 
> it's user page.  You can activate it using this in xwiki.cfg
> 
> xwiki.authentication.authclass=com.xpn.xwiki.user.impl.xwiki.AppServerTrustedAuthServiceImpl
> 
> Implementing XWiki in Kerberos itself is a lot of work and not really 
> usefull since you can have it in Apache or the App server.
> 

<fsfRant>
Why not drop Windows? It's a crappy product, and there's no reason why
you should keep it. This way you'll be able to use mod_auth_kerb.
</fsfRant>

> 
> Sebastian Kannengiesser a écrit :
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm very enthusiastic about getting everything out of the XWiki
>> environment I'm about to set up for my company. As a matter of fact,
>> right now I'm thinking about the best solution for getting Kerberos
>> authentication/authorization to work as all 12000 employees are
>> already part of the company's Active Directory.
>>
>> I've read the XWiki article about Auth issues and am now thinking
>> about what would be the best/easiest/strongest solution.
>> The solution mentioned in the Wiki wants to use Apache Webserver mit
>> mod_auth_kerb. As for now, I did not succeed in building a working
>> mod_auth_kerb module for Win32, which somehow disencourages me to
>> follow this suggestion. Anyway I wonder, whether I would only be able
>> to authenticate users or whether there would be a way to have XWikis
>> builtin auth features cooperate with the Kerberos mechanism. The I
>> just came across "josso" which seems to a framework which can be
>> deployed into a JBoss Application Server and work as an authentication
>> gateway to any josso-enabled applications running on JBoss. Is XWiki
>> capable of doing this? And the question about XWikis auth mechanism
>> from before remains. Any other suggestions and hints for such are
>> scenario from you guys are highly appreciated , since the whole
>> AD/Kerberos/JBoss stuff is rather new to me. Again, many thanx in
>> advance for any potential reply on this, it's really important to me.


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