NAME

ss5.gss - Enable GSS Kerberos authentication, integrity and confidentiality (see RFC 1961)

SYNOPSIS

ss5 usually communicates with socks client in clear-text. If <s> method is set in <auth> directive, ss5 establishes a common security mechanism based on Kerberos mechanisms.

DESCRIPTION

To enable GSSAPI authentication with the ss5 daemon you must set SS5_GSS_PRINC option in the ss5.conf file indicating your Kerberos service principal name. Before GSSAPI authentication works, you must install libgssapi package. In base of socks client want to do, SS5 accepts 0 (auth only), 1 (integrity) or 2 (encryption) encapsulation values.

To add GSSAPI authentication, change the line to:

3. Restart the server.

SEE ALSO

ss5(1), ss5.conf(5), ss5.pam(5), ss5.passwd(5), ss5.ha(5), ss5srv(1), ss5_supa(5), ss5_gss(5)

AUTHOR

Send comments to Matteo.Ricchetti@libero.it