SPNEGO

This module adds SPNEGO support to NGINX Plus. Currently, only Kerberos authentication via GSSAPI is supported.

Installation

  1. Check the Technical Specifications page to verify that the module is supported by your operating system.

  2. Install the SPNEGO Auth module package nginx-plus-module-auth-spnego.

    For Amazon Linux 2, CentOS, Oracle Linux, and RHEL:

    yum install nginx-plus-module-auth-spnego

    For Amazon Linux 2023, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux:

    dnf install nginx-plus-module-auth-spnego

    For Debian and Ubuntu::

    apt-get install nginx-plus-module-auth-spnego

    For SLES:

    zypper install nginx-plus-module-auth-spnego

    For Alpine:

    apk add nginx-plus-module-auth-spnego

    For FreeBSD:

    pkg install nginx-plus-module-auth-spnego

Configuration

After installation you will need to enable and configure the module in NGINX Plus configuration file nginx.conf.

  1. Enable dynamic loading of the module with the load_module directive specified in the top-level (“main”) context:

    load_module modules/spnego-http-auth-nginx-module.so;

  2. Perform additional configuration as required by the module.

  3. Test the configuration and reload NGINX Plus to enable the module:

    nginx -t && nginx -s reload

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