A month or two ago, Thunderbird decided for whatever reason that I need to authenticate to Kerberos to send emails on my NCSU account. This is only on one of my computers and not on the other. I've checked the settings on both computers and they're identical. I don't remember changing any settings, although I'm sure it's possible.



It gives me my unity ID, the realm is "EOS.NCSU.EDU", then asks for my password. Ironically enough I can click cancel and my emails will still send.


I'm curious of 2 things:
1: Why the crap is this happening, and how do I stop it?
2: Why the heck does it want me to authenticate to EOS when I've been out of engineering for 2ish years and I don't have any connection to EOS in any way anymore...

I can provide a screenshot if necessary.

9/10/2008 9:17:54 AM

options > advanced > config editor

set network.auth.use-sspi to true
(only if you're on windows - if you're using kerberos, i'm guessing you're not on windows though)

if not on windows:
make sure "use secure authentication" isn't checked in your server settings, and choose "TLS, if enabled"


basically, it's using GSSAPI to auth - i'm willing to bet you have secure auth checked, which uses GSSAPI, and GSSAPI is gonna try and get a krb ticket. it probably worked in the past because you had cached tickets from other usage.

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 10:34 AM. Reason : .]

9/10/2008 10:30:03 AM

Nah it's on my mac. I'll check the settings again when I get home and compare them to those on my fiancee's computer, and on my other computer, just to be sure.

9/10/2008 10:35:01 AM