Authentication by certificate

Ken Murchison murch at andrew.cmu.edu
Mon Dec 10 13:39:29 EST 2007


Matthieu Hallouin free wrote:
> hi,
> is it possible to authenticate users by certificate ?
> thanks

If you mean by TLS client certificate, yes.  The client must present the 
certificate to the server with the user's credentials, and then 
authenticate using the 'EXTERNAL' SASL mechanism.

-- 
Kenneth Murchison
Systems Programmer
Project Cyrus Developer/Maintainer
Carnegie Mellon University


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