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[jira] [Commented] (KNOX-504) Enable SSL Mutual Authentication

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KNOX-504?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=14375083#comment-14375083 ] 

ASF subversion and git services commented on KNOX-504:
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Commit 1668419 from [~lmccay@apache.org] in branch 'knox/trunk'
[ https://svn.apache.org/r1668419 ]

KNOX-504 - document mutual authentication using SSL

> Enable SSL Mutual Authentication
> --------------------------------
>
>                 Key: KNOX-504
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KNOX-504
>             Project: Apache Knox
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Server
>            Reporter: Larry McCay
>            Assignee: Larry McCay
>             Fix For: 0.6.0
>
>
> To establish a stronger trust relationship between client and server, we need to allow mutual auth with SSL via client certs. This is particularly useful in providing additional validation for Preauthenticated SSO with HTTP Headers. Rather than just ip address validation, connections will only be accepted from clients presenting trusted certificates.



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