Matt Mossholder on 4 Oct 2007 15:24:31 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] Microsoft Sharepoint


On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:59 -0400, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> > It will if you set up the authentication correctly.
> >
> > IIRC, the sharepoint setup program allows you to choose what type(s) of
> > authentication that you wish to support (if the setup program doesn't give
> > this option, then you could always configure authentication options via the
> > IIS MMC snapin, but besides the point...).  If you only support AD
> > authentication, then FF will not work.  Firefox will only work if basic
> > and/or digest authentication is enabled.  Even then, digest authentication
> > seems to fail if the password is greater than 26 characters.
> 
> [KSB] Thank you very much, Brian.  They only support AD...  Arrgh!
> [I'm just a stuck user, not a sys admin or a decision maker in this
> regard.]
> 
> -- Bhaskar

Give this a try: http://negotiateauth.mozdev.org/

Basically, it enabled kerberos ticket passing with firefox. You will probably 
need to add your system to the AD domain ( check out sadms - 
http://sadms.sourceforge.net/ ).

I use it to do non-AD Kerberos auth on my home network.

		--Matt



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