Configuring SPNEGO on the Client

An administrator or user can configure SPNEGO on the client (web browser or client tools, such as curl). To configure SPNEGO on the client, a Kerberos Ticket Granting Ticket must exist for the user accessing the web server. The Kerberos Ticket Granting Ticket generated on the client side is used by the web client to get a service ticket from the KDC. This service ticket is used to generate a SPNEGO token, which is presented to the web server for authentication.

The client should use the same web server hostname (as configured in the server-side principal) to access the Drill Web Console. If the server hostname differs, SPNEGO authentication will fail. For example, if the server principal is "HTTP/example.QA.LAB@QA.LAB", the client should use http://example.QA.LAB:8047 as the Drill Web Console URL.

The following sections provide instructions for configuring the supported client-side browsers:

Firefox

To configure Firefox to use a negotiation dialog, such as SPNEGO to authenticate, complete the following steps:
  1. Go to About > Config, and accept the warnings.
  2. Navigate to the network settings.
  3. Set network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris to "http://,https://".
  4. Set network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris to “http://,https://”.

Chrome

For MacOS or Linux, add the --auth-server-whitelist parameter to the google-chrome command. For example, to run Chrome from a Linux prompt, run the google-chrome command, as shown: 
 google-chrome --auth-server-whitelist = "hostname/domain"  
   Example: google-chrome --auth-server-whitelist = "example.QA.LAB"

Safari

No configuration is required for Safari. Safari automatically authenticates using SPNEGO when requested by the server.

Internet Explorer

To configure Internet Explorer to use a negotiation dialog, such as SPNEGO to authenticate, complete the following steps:
  1. Go to Tools > Options > Security > Local Intranet > Sites, and select all options.
  2. Select Advanced, and add one or both of the following URLs to server:
    • http://
    • https://
      NOTE Make sure you use the hostname of the Drillbit in the URL.
  3. Close the Advanced tab, and click OK.
  4. Go to Tools > Options > Advanced > Security (in the checkbox list), and enable the Integrated Windows Authentication option.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Close and reopen IE. You can browse to your Spengo protected resource.

REST API

You can use CURL commands to authenticate using SPNEGO and access secure web resources over REST.

Issue the following curl command to log in using SPNEGO, and save the authenticated session cookie to a file, such as cookie.txt, as shown:
curl -v --negotiate -c cookie.txt -u : http://<hostname>:8047/spnegoLogin
Use the authenticated session cookie stored in the file, for example cookie.txt, to access the Drill Web Console pages, as shown in the following example:
curl -v --negotiate -b cookie.txt -u : http://<hostname>:8047/query       
   Example: curl -v --negotiate -b cookie.txt -u : http://example.QA.LAB:8047/query