[Users] qop authentication support

Klaus Darilion klaus.mailinglists at pernau.at
Tue Dec 5 14:26:25 CET 2006


Klaus Darilion wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Reading openser's docs about qop, it looks like openser supports qop.
> 
> turning qop on with www_challenge("", "1") activates the qop parameter:
> 
> WWW-Authenticate: Digest realm="foo.bar", 
> nonce="457553154ed7b9d93effa4118b4fe21f11b7f887", qop="auth".
> 
> Openser advertises only qop=auth. Looking at the source code I get the 
> impression that auth-int is supported too. How can this be activated?

 From Rfc 3261 how it looks like:

       WWW-Authenticate: Digest
               realm="biloxi.com",
               qop="auth,auth-int",
               nonce="dcd98b7102dd2f0e8b11d0f600bfb0c093",
               opaque="5ccc069c403ebaf9f0171e9517f40e41"


I guess it should be easy to add this to the auth module. I think it 
will be useful to allow exact specification of the qop parameter with a 
bitmask, e.g:

www_challenge("", "1"): qop="auth"
www_challenge("", "2"): qop="auth-int"
www_challenge("", "3"): qop="auth,auth-int"


Further, I think it can be useful to extend www_authorize (and the 
radius functions) to return different return codes depending on the 
authentication problem (e.g. cnonce counter problem, ....).

Further, does someone have any experience how clients handle qop=auth 
and qop=auth-int?

regards
klaus

-- 
Klaus Darilion
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