Murder Authentication Methods

[anthony mayes]

Rob Siemborski wrote:

>On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, anthony mayes wrote:
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>>We would like to implement a murder including 2 frontends and 3+
>>backends in a switched (or vpn) environment.  After reading the
>>cyrus-info archives and the documents included in the Cyrus source, we
>>are unclear about the authentication process between the front and the
>>back ends.  We would like to avoid using Kerberos if at all possible
>>being as we do not have an existing Kerberos installation.  What
>>authentication methods would be best suited for this environment?
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>Kerberos is best suited to this enviornment.  Seriously, it's deseigned to
>let services authenticate to eachother.  The murder has also been
>extensively tested in a Kerberos enviornment, and testing in other
>enviornments has been incidental at best.
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>Failing that, DIGEST-MD5 or PLAIN+TLS (in Cyrus 2.2) are your best bets.
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Since we are in a sealed environment, we would like to try using 
DIGEST-MD5 (at least for testing).  It would be very much appreciated if 
someone would share their configuration files with us.  Thanks in advance.

-- 
Anthony Mayes
UNIX Server Administration
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
anmayes at siue.edu

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