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Single Sign On (SSO) with Secure Shell (SSH)

August 30, 2013Dale Macartney 2 Comments

From time to time I get asked about Single Sign On, or SSO for short. For those who haven’t come across the term before, it is simply the situation of authenticating a user without the need for entering a password. This should not be confused SSH keys as this simply bypasses the authentication process completely. […]

Authenticating Apache Virtual Hosts with Kerberos

December 24, 2012Dale Macartney Leave a comment

Below is a quick walk through on setting up an Apache virtual host with kerberos authentication.

If you use or are looking to integrate single sign on into your websites or web based applications in your environment, this will be for you.

Example Details

In this article I will be setting up a new website called mysite.example.com, using the below details.

Web Server Name: web01.example.com
Web Server Operating System: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.3
Kerberos Realm: EXAMPLE.COM
Kerberos Username: testuser

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Squid Proxy integration with Active Directory – The quick and simple way

July 6, 2012Dale Macartney 17 Comments

UPDATE: This guide originally showed you how to configure Squid to authenticate with Pam. However as many people have been searching for ways to authenticate with Kerberos, I have updated this article to refect the necessary changes. The upside is, you now have Single Sign On (SSO) as a bonus. Your users will not be […]

Configuring Dovecot to authenticate FreeIPA users using Kerberos (with Single Sign On)

July 5, 2012Dale Macartney 4 Comments

I have also posted this article on the FreeIPA.org project wiki which is linked here

The below details will walk you through how to add a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 system to an IPA domain, and then configure Dovecot to allow single sign on to user mailboxes with IMAP/S.

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