Re: Kerberos + SASL question

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Tuesday, March 22, 2005 5:19 PM +0000 Manel Euro <euro_32@hotmail.com> 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am having problems understanding kerberos, LDAP and Cyrus SASL
> interaction.
>
> I am using LDAP to store the users information like uid, home directory,
> grouid, geco (passwd without the password field).
> I have kerberos configured and working.
>
> I understand that SASL is a layer that provides  authentication mechanims
> to protocols like LDAP. By using GSSAPI, as soon as I get a Kerberos TGT
> I will be allowed to get a  TGS for LDAP. However, if the LDAP directory
> holds my userid and groupid,  necessary to pam_krb5, and if I need a TGT
> to access a TGS for ldap how will I be able to login.
>
> If  I have the concepts wrong please let me know.

I use a site restricted anonymous bind for getting information out of the 
directory related to passwd file information.

--Quanah

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