How to enable Kerberos authentication in TruClient protocol

  • KM00410279
  • 19-Apr-2013
  • 28-May-2013

Summary

How to enable Kerberos authentication for Single-sign on website in Firefox TruClient protocol

Question

Kerberos authentication for single sign-on web sites does not come supported out of the box due to the default Mozilla Firefox settings.

Answer

Perform the following steps to enable it:

  1. Open VuGen and create a new Firefox TruClient script
  2. Open Firefox by clicking on 'Develop Script' button
  3. In the address bar of Firefox, type about:config to display the list of current configuration options.
  4. In the Filter field, type negotiate to restrict the list of options.
  5. Double-click the network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris entry to display the Enter string value dialog box.
  6. Enter the name of the domain against which you want to authenticate, for example, .example.com.
  7. Repeat the above procedure for the network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris entry, using the same domain.