[cups.general] Negotiate vs Basic Auth

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Oct 3 13:50:08 PDT 2007


Daniel Henninger wrote:
> Howdy!
> 
> Does Negotiate require Kerberos auth "period"?  Ideally what I'd like to be able to do is if Kerberos auth is available and works, great!  Use it!  Otherwise punt to asking for a username and password.  Is there a way to do that?

Yes, Negotiate forces the use of Kerberos, as there is no way to
advertise multiple auth methods via HTTP...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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