Added a retry limit for dealing with communication exceptions.

Updated the README to reflect the new mechanism info changes for
the Krb5 and Pwd authentication mechanisms.
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Juan Carlos Luciani
2007-03-21 22:15:35 +00:00
parent 0eda6a0830
commit 65a6c74d20
5 changed files with 23 additions and 14 deletions

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@@ -184,12 +184,12 @@ The following is an example auth.policy file:
<auth_source>
<realm>CorpTree</realm>
<mechanism>Krb5Authenticate</mechanism>
<mechanism_info>host/tokenserver.company.novell.com@KRB_REALM</mechanism_info>
<mechanism_info>SVC_PRINCIPAL=host/tokenserver.company.novell.com@KRB_REALM</mechanism_info>
</auth_source>
<auth_source>
<realm>CorpTree</realm>
<mechanism>PwdAuthenticate</mechanism>
<mechanism_info></mechanism_info>
<mechanism_info>REALM_CREDENTIALS_ONLY=true</mechanism_info>
</auth_source>
</auth_policy>
@@ -212,10 +212,16 @@ Note the following about the sample auth.policy file:
- The name of the Krb5 Authentication mechanism is "Krb5Authenticate". This mechanism
defaults the service principal name to host/hostname@KERBEROS_REALM. You can use a
different service principal name under the mechanism_info key.
different service principal name by setting the SVC_PRINCIPAL setting equal to it
under the mechanism_info key. Notice that mechanism info settings for this mechanism
are separated using a semicolon and no-white space is allowed.
- The name of the username/password authentication mechanism is "PwdAuthenticate" and
it does not require any information to be included under the mechanism_info key.
it does not require any information to be included under the mechanism_info key. You
can specify to the client to only utilize credentials for the specified realm by
setting the mechanism info setting REALM_CREDENTIALS_ONLY equal to "true". Notice that
mechanism info settings for this mechanism are separated using a semicolon and no-white
space is allowed.
The authtoken.settings file contains settings that should be applied to authentication
tokens issued to authenticate to the service.