Re: Authentication through web server

From: Ray Rupert (rcr@doctorbank.org)
Date: 08/07/02 

From: "Ray Rupert" <rcr@doctorbank.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:54:28 +0200

Hi,
I am not sure if this is what You mean, but have You investigated using
Client-Certificates in YOur browser for authentication ?

regards
r
cr
"Jeff Ryan" <jryan@releaseteam.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:275d4355.0208051424.1c5de05a@posting.google.com...
> Is it even possible to get either hostbased or public key
> authentication to work for a user through a web server? Here's my
> current setup and why I want to do this.
>
> I am working on an integration between Rational ClearCase and
> ClearQuest that is rather complicated. End users do all of their
> ClearQuest work with the available web client running on a Windows NT
> machine and IIS 4. I installed Cygwin on this machine to get the use
> of SSH 3.4p1. I need to SSH to a Red Hat 7.2 Linux machine and run a
> few commands on the ClearCase side. Problem is my scripts that contain
> SSH commands when kicked off from the web client hang asking for a
> password even though I setup hostbased and public key authentication
> correctly for a particular user. The setup for this user has been
> verified by running simple command line SSH commands. Why doesn't
> hostbased work with the web server and what user should I try using?
>
> If I haven't given enough details, I can provide more, including log
> files.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff Ryan

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