Firefox
In Firefox on CNF Linux, GSSAPI Authentication ("auth negotiate") may already be enabled. You can confirm this with the following steps.
- Open Firefox
- In the URL bar, type in:
about:config - On the "Proceed with Caution" window, click "Accept the Risk and Continue"
- In the "Search preference name" box, type in:
negotiate*trusted - There will be a single result: network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris
- This single result should be set to:
https:// - If it is not, you can click the 'pencil; icon on that row, and then type in:
https://
and then click the check box to confirm your change - Close this tab. Your are all set.
Chrome
In Chrome on CNF Linux, CNF has deployed a policy for you that enables GSSAPI Authenticaation ("auth negotiate").
The deployed policy enables the following policy setting: AuthServerAllowlist
You can confirm the policy setting by:
- Open Chrome
- In the URL bar, type in:
chrome://policy - In the Policies search box, type in:
AuthServer - If there are no results, this policy value is not correctly set.
- You should see a result with "AuthServerAllowlist" being set to ".cnf.cornell.edu"