Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Q - afp mount via www?
From: PayPC System Mail Subscriber (spammail@quanta.paypc.com)
Date: Mon Oct 26 1998 - 19:18:37 EST
Leo Wierzbowski said in [netatalk-admins] Q - afp mount via www? at
23/Oct/1998 (Fri) 01:38:49.
> There's a group here at UF working on a way to authenticate laptop users
> of our networks via a cookie generated by a web page visit. The laptop
> needs only a ssl-capable browser - no special client software. The web
> server takes the userid and passwd, authenticates against a kerberos 5
> server, and deposits a cookie on the laptop which other web services can
> use for single-sign-on style authentication.
>
> Mac laptops not only have a browser, but the AFP client too. So, is
> there a way I can make a Mac mount an afp volume via a web page visit?
Well, if you have OS 8.5 (with the Network Browser app), you can do things
like:
afp://address.of.asip.server/
You need to setup your web browser to launch Net Browser as a helper (if you
installed OS 8.5 with IE 4.01 or Nutscraper, it's preset to do this).... it
all works.
Of course, you're talking about doing the login exchage in addition to the
actual connect itself. I have no idea about doing anything like that. Maybe
with the Authman or KClient there's some way to glue it into the login
process, I don't know - I don't use Kerberos.
=R=
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