[CentOS] Practical experience with NTLM/Windows Integrated Authentication [Apache]

Tue Feb 17 00:05:44 UTC 2009
Christopher Chan <christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk>

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:21 -0500, Ross Walker wrote:
>
>   
>> Avoid NTLM all together and use Kerberos between apache/squid, Active  
>> Directory and the Windows and Linux clients.
>>
>> Firefox and IE both support Kerberos authentication. I believe apache/ 
>> squid do too, but you need a manually create the service principal  
>> names in AD for those.
>>     
>
> I was using NTLM at first, but then switched to Kerberos (on the CentOS
> server side).  The Windows users didn't see a difference.  For them, SSO
> works just as well as before, but I still get prompted to enter
> user/password when I use my Fedora 10 desktop to browse to CentOS hosted
> web sites.
>
> My Fedora desktop is joined to the domain. I can login with my AD
> user/password. I even have caching working, which lets me sign on to my
> laptop when it's not connected to the network.
>
> I suppose I've missed something, though I don't know what.
Maybe kerberos authentication?

I have winbind authentication working here but I have yet to get 
kerberos working to get SSO on Linux desktops.