[rabbitmq-discuss] [ANN] RabbitMQ Kerberos authentication plugin

Tue May 21 09:00:47 BST 2013

Congratulations on the first release Simon! :)

On 21 May 2013, at 06:38, Simon Lundström <simlu at su.se> wrote:

> I'm glad to be able to announce the Kerberos (note: not GSSAPI[1])
> authentication plugin for RabbitMQ.
> 
> The plugin makes it possible to use Kerberos principals to login to
> RabbitMQ 3.x both via AMQP and the management GUI.
> Since Kerberos is an authentication protocol you still need a plugin to
> provide authorization. By default that is done via
> rabbit_auth_backend_internal.
> 
> The code is available from
> <https://github.com/simmel/rabbitmq-auth-backend-kerberos> and is built
> with help from the RabbitMQ plugin development guide
> <https://www.rabbitmq.com/plugin-development.html>.
> Code is licenced under the revised BSD license.
> 
> Configuration and install documentation is also available from the
> above github page.
> 
> The plugin works with both Heimdal and MIT Kerberos libs.
> 
> I'd like to thank everyone who has helped this become a reality,
> especially Simon and Tim from VMware and Linus and Klas, my former
> co-workers.
> 
> Finally I'd like to thank my employer, IT Services at Stockholm
> University, for giving me the opportunity to learn C (atleast, more
> properly) and Erlang.
> 
> [1] While we would love to use GSSAPI instead of user/password via
> Kerberos, we weren't that keen on implementing GSSAPI in all
> RabbitMQ/AMQP libraries available.
> 
> 
> Br,
> - Simon
> 
> ____________________________________
> 
> Simon Lundström
> Section for Infrastructure
> 
> IT Services
> Stockholm University
> SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
> 
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