Re: [us...@httpd] LDAP authentication with password encryption from browser to web server

2010-09-29 Thread Mark Tischler
Thanks. I found the provided links very helpful. I decided to file an enhancement request in ASF Bugzilla, given that this has been complained about for at least 3 years. Also, thanks to Igor for suggesting Kerberos. I will look into that. Mark On 9/28/2010 6:09 PM, [triplepack] info (i

Re: [us...@httpd] LDAP authentication with password encryption from browser to web server

2010-09-28 Thread Igor Galić
> Eric, > Thanks for this response. Very interesting. I guess that > makes it even more desirous to find a solution to the overall > problem of authenticating via LDAP in a secure manner... Does > anyone have ideas on how to accomplish that? Have you considered Kerberos? > Mark /sni

Re: [us...@httpd] LDAP authentication with password encryption from browser to web server

2010-09-28 Thread [triplepack] info (i...@pack3.ch)
Digest does more then just encrypting the password. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication and if you have a look at that RFC http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2829.txt LDAP it self possibly supports already digest-md5. so really the LDAP auth should support the digest auth by ma

Re: [us...@httpd] LDAP authentication with password encryption from browser to web server

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Tischler
William, Thanks. There is no way to make Digest authentication work with LDAP from what I have found/read. But it seems to me that someone must have already run up against this sometime before now. Is my understanding correct that one can use Digest authentication to encrypt the password

Re: [us...@httpd] LDAP authentication with password encryption from browser to web server

2010-09-28 Thread William A. Rowe Jr.
On 9/24/2010 4:28 PM, Mark Tischler wrote: > I have been looking through a lot of documentation on this subject, both on > apache.org > and elsewhere, and I can't seem to find an answer to the following question: > > Our Apache web server (version 2.2.11 running on Solaris 10) is currently > au

Re: [us...@httpd] LDAP authentication with password encryption from browser to web server

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Tischler
Eric, As I mentioned in the original posting, I was hoping to avoid using SSL due to the performance hit that we would take with it. If there is a solution out there (changes to httpd.conf or .htaccess files) that would allow me to pass the encrypted password from the browser to the web

Re: [us...@httpd] LDAP authentication with password encryption from browser to web server

2010-09-28 Thread Eric Covener
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Mark Tischler wrote: >  Eric, >    Thanks for this response.  Very interesting.  I guess that makes it even > more desirous to find a solution to the overall problem of authenticating > via LDAP in a secure manner...  Does anyone have ideas on how to accomplish > t

Re: [us...@httpd] LDAP authentication with password encryption from browser to web server

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Tischler
Eric, Thanks for this response. Very interesting. I guess that makes it even more desirous to find a solution to the overall problem of authenticating via LDAP in a secure manner... Does anyone have ideas on how to accomplish that? Mark On 9/24/2010 4:28 PM, Mark Tischler wrote: I h

Re: [us...@httpd] LDAP authentication with password encryption from browser to web server

2010-09-24 Thread Eric Covener
> I understand that I could force the users to use an https URL instead of an > http URL, but that seems like it would be overkill.  If that is the only > solution to this issue, then we would really want the user to authenticate > over https, but then fall back to http for all of the rest of the >

[us...@httpd] LDAP authentication with password encryption from browser to web server

2010-09-24 Thread Mark Tischler
I have been looking through a lot of documentation on this subject, both on apache.org and elsewhere, and I can't seem to find an answer to the following question: Our Apache web server (version 2.2.11 running on Solaris 10) is currently authenticating users via LDAP successfully. But, we w