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Re: LDAP and Kerberos Keytab

To: openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
Subject: Re: LDAP and Kerberos Keytab
From: "Dieter Kluenter" <dieter@dkluenter.de>
Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 23:36:24 +0200
In-reply-to: <20050719163310.A42BAAFA9D@xprdmailfe5.nwk.excite.com> (Mitchell Griffith's message of "Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:33:10 -0400 (EDT)")
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"Mitchell Griffith" <kosh_3@excite.com> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I work for a company that uses openLDAP for its users.  I was told by
> one of our employees that Kerberos can be used to authenticate users.
> The authentication is against LDAP. but LDAP accesses Kerberos through
> LDAP's backend.  We do not have this in place at the moment, but I was
> curious about it.
>
> I have two questions.
>
> Is what I stated above correct (authenticate against kerberos through
> ldap)?
>
> If this is true, can the authentication be through password and keytab
> for Kerberos?

Heimdal KRB5 may use OpenLDAP as database backend.

-Dieter

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References:
- LDAP and Kerberos Keytab
  - From: "Mitchell Griffith" <kosh_3@excite.com>

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