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    About This Document >>
    Installing SSH Tectia Server >>
    Getting Started >>
    Configuration >>
    Authentication >>
        Server Authentication with Public Keys >>
        Server Authentication with Certificates >>
        User Authentication with Passwords
        User Authentication with Public Keys >>
        User Authentication with Certificates >>
        Host-Based User Authentication >>
        User Authentication with Keyboard-Interactive >>
        User Authentication with GSSAPI
            Client and Server Configuration
    Application Tunneling >>
    Troubleshooting >>
    Man Pages
    Advanced Options >>
    Log Messages >>

Client and Server Configuration

Both the client and the server use a similar configuration data format.

The name of the GSSAPI method is gssapi. It can be specified with the AllowedAuthentications keyword in ssh2_config and sshd2_config configuration files.

There is a GSSAPI-related keyword GSSAPI.AllowedMethods which specifies the actual mechanisms that are to be used through GSSAPI. Only the Kerberos mechanism is supported on Unix.

For the Kerberos authentication to function through GSSAPI, both the client and server will need to be configured to use Kerberos.

If GSSAPI.AllowOldMethodWhichIsInsecure is selected, GSSAPI authentication will drop back to the old GSSAPI method (without Message Integrity Code) if the new GSSAPI method (gssapi-with-mic) fails. As the GSSAPI with MIC method is not yet widely supported, GSSAPI.AllowOldMethodWhichIsInsecure is selected by default.

GSSAPI.Dlls specifies where the necessary GSSAPI libraries are located. If this option is not specified, the libraries will be searched for in a number of common locations. This configuration option takes a comma-separated list as an argument. The full path to the libraries should be given.

The following is a sample GSSAPI configuration from the ssh2_config configuration file:

AllowedAuthentications   gssapi,password
...
GSSAPI.AllowedMethods    kerberos

Note: SSH Communications Security does not provide technical support on how to configure Kerberos. Our support only covers SSH Tectia applications.

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