This project provides a general server library which provides SPNEGO mechanism.

This package builds with Swift Package Manager and is part of the Perfect project.

Ensure you have installed and activated the latest Swift 3.0 tool chain.

Perfect SPNEGO is aiming on a general application of Server Side Swift, so it could be plugged into ANY servers, such as HTTP / FTP / SSH, etc.

Although it supports Perfect HTTP server natively, it could be applied to any other Swift servers as well.

Before attaching to any actual server applications, please make sure your server has been already configured with Kerberos V5.

If you would like to use Xcode to build this project, please make sure to pass proper linker flags to the Swift Package Manager:

$ swift package -Xlinker -framework -Xlinker GSS generate-xcodeproj

A special library called libkrb5-dev is required to build this project:

$ sudo apt-get install libkrb5-dev

If your server is a KDC, then you can skip this step, otherwise please install Kerberos V5 utilities:

$ sudo apt-get install krb5-user

Configure the application server's /etc/krb5.conf to your KDC. The following sample configuration shows how to connect your application server to realm KRB5.CA under control of a KDC named nut.krb5.ca:

[realms]
KRB5.CA = {
	kdc = nut.krb5.ca
	admin_server = nut.krb5.ca
}
[domain_realm]
.krb5.ca = KRB5.CA
krb5.ca = KRB5.CA

Contact to your KDC administrator to assign a keytab file to your application server.

Take example, SUPPOSE ALL HOSTS BELOW REGISTERED ON THE SAME DNS SERVER:

• KDC server: nut.krb5.ca
• Application server: coco.krb5.ca
• Application server type: HTTP

In such a case, KDC administrator shall login on nut.krb5.ca then perform following operation:

kadmin.local: addprinc -randkey HTTP/[email protected]
kadmin.local: ktadd -k /tmp/krb5.keytab HTTP/[email protected]

Then please ship this krb5.keytab file securely and install on your application server coco.krb5.ca and move to folder /etc, then grant sufficient permissions to your swift application to access it.

Add the following dependency to your project's Package.swift file:

.Package(url: "https://github.com/PerfectlySoft/Perfect-SPNEGO.git", majorVersion: 1)

Then import Perfect-SPNEGO to your source code:

import PerfectSPNEGO

Use the key in your default keytab /etc/krb5.keytab file on application server to register your application server to the KDC.

let spnego = try Spnego("[email protected]")

Please note that the host name and protocol type MUST match the records listed in the keytab file.

Once initialized, object spnego could respond to the challenges. Take example, if a user is trying to connect to the application server as:

$ kinit [email protected]
$ curl --negotiate -u : http://coco.krb5.ca

In this case, the curl command would possibly send a base64 encoded challenge in the HTTP header:

> Authorization: Negotiate YIICnQYGKwYBBQUCoIICkTCCAo2gJzAlBgkqhkiG9xIBAgI ...

Once received such a challenge, you could apply this base64 string to the spnego object:

let (user, response) = try spnego.accept(base64Token: "YIICnQYGKwYBBQUCoIICkTCCAo2gJzAlBgkqhkiG9xIBAgI...")

If succeeded, the user would be "[email protected]". The variable response might be nil which indicates nothing is required to reply such a token, otherwise you should send this response back to the client.

Up till now, your application had already got the user information and request, then the application server might decide if this user could access the objective resource or not, according to your ACL (access control list) configuration.

For more information on the Perfect project, please visit perfect.org.

For rapid development purposes, this repo includes an base64 implementation developed by Sean Starkey [email protected] but it is subject to Perfect's future development. https://github.com/SeanStarkey/base64