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/***********************************************************************
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*
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* Copyright (C) 2006 Novell, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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*
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* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
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* modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
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* License as published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.1
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* of the License.
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*
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* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
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* Library Lesser General Public License for more details.
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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* License along with this library; if not, Novell, Inc.
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*
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* To contact Novell about this file by physical or electronic mail,
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* you may find current contact information at www.novell.com.
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*
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* Author: Juan Carlos Luciani <jluciani@novell.com>
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*
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***********************************************************************/
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/***********************************************************************
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*
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* README for krb5mech
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*
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***********************************************************************/
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INTRODUCTION
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krb5mech is a client authentication mechanism for the support of Kerberos 5
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authentication. The mechanism leverages the services of the native Kerberos 5
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client to obtain Kerberos Tokens that can be used for authenticating an entity
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to a Kerberos service.
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SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS
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The tokens that krb5mech generates are only utilized to authenticate the client
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entity to the Kerberos service, because of this, auth_token relies on SSL for
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server authentication. auth_token does not leverage the capabilities of GSSAPI
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for data privacy and data integrity purposes.
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