Auth types for Samba4 SWAT

Andrew Tridgell tridge at osdl.org
Sun May 29 02:04:40 GMT 2005


Andrew,

 > While I think that such support should be optional, we should allow both
 > NTLM and 'Negotiate' (GSS-SPNEGO) authentication for the webserver,
 > possibly via a different URL prefix, or other 'marker'.  

yep, it will be worthwhile adding support for transparent
authentication like this. That will make life easier for windows
clients.

What I don't want is us to fall back to HTTP basic auth. I'd much
rather have a decent forms interface, with a pull-down for domain
selection.

Cheers, Tridge


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