[SR-Users] LDAP and Kerberos backend for authentification / Or PAM / SASL ?

[Daniel-Constantin Mierla]

On 23/04/14 08:06, Yoann Gini wrote:
>
> Le 22 avr. 2014 à 11:03, Daniel-Constantin Mierla <miconda at gmail.com 
> <mailto:miconda at gmail.com>> a écrit :
>
>> the constraint to have access to text password or HA1 format (md5 
>> over username, password, realm) comes from WWW Authentication 
>> mechanism which is used by SIP.
>>
>> Writing something different in kamailio would be possible (it is open 
>> source), but you don't have phones able to do it and provide the 
>> adequate details.
>
> Are you sure?
Sure you can't be sure of anything but this one.

> You’ve a Radius backend for example, Radius don’t allow you to access 
> to clear text password, it isn’t?
Look at digest module for (free)radius, if there is something like that 
for ldap, then you may get it working with some patch. But it still 
requires access to plain text password or HA1.
>
>
> The only www authentication mechanism who must have access to clear 
> text password is the DIGEST auth. But if we consider using SIP over 
> TLS, we may be able to use BASIC authentication…
>
> What do you think ? Does the authentication kind is negotiated during 
> the communication?
If you use tls and give a signed certificate to client, then you can 
simply authenticate it by trusting the certificate and checking the 
owner fields to match sip headers.

If you control the client and develop it, you can add any authentication 
mechanism. You will eventually have to add to kamailio appropriate 
authentication support, but that's easy, it's open source.

However, SIP RFC enforces www digest authentication and it is what all 
the phones I am aware of in the wild support now.

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Daniel-Constantin Mierla - http://www.asipto.com
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