So I have some code which I'm testing to make sure it works nicely for authentication. It works fine against straight kerberos, so I figured there should only be some minor hiccups with AD. Unfortu...

I have a simple Thrift based java application I have written. It is really very simple, not much more than a "Hello World" message transport using Thrift in java. I have been told that I need to ad...

I have been working on using GSSAPI in c/c++ applications, for some time now. Obviously I had to google and research a lot. One of the most interesting documentation I discovered was on Sun's old w...

I am doing a project which involves authentication and I can't quite grasp the difference between SASL and gssapi. Is gssapi used under the covers of SASL? Can I use gssapi without SASL? What is th...

I ran some tests on Kerberos and found out some strange behavior related to Firefox and Kerberos. I have a server running Apache + mod_auh_kerb which is configured to check kerberos credential when...

I'm trying to use the ldap_sasl_bind_s method from the Microsoft LDAP C SDK, with GSSAPI as the authentication mechanism. ldap_sasl_bind_s expects the credentials as a BERVAL structure, which is op...

Background On the project I work on we have GUI applications running on several different servers. Due to their user interface similarities I am investigating combining their OMIs into a single un...