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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA">I am trying to configure X509 client authentication in Jetty.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA">For this development server I have first enabled HTTPS on the Jetty web server and installed a domain certificate in the keystore
signed by a CA known by the brower. This works.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA">Now I would like to enable X509 authentication.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA">For the client certificate I have created a private CA on the server using openssl and created client certificates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA">The private CA certificate is imported in to the keystore as a trusted CA.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA">Then I set idp.authn.flows=X509 in the Shibboleth file idp.properties.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA">The user is now presented with X509 login page, but the authentication fails because the browser does not submit the certificate
when I press the “Certificate Login” button.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA">It seems that I have to set the property jetty.sslContext.wantClientAuth=true in the jetty base ssl.ini file.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA">Otherwise Shibboleth does not prompt for the client certificate in the browser.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA">But this creates the behaviour that the users is prompted for the certificate before the login-page is presented in the browser.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-fareast-language:DA">Is it not possible to configure Jetty/Shibboleth in such a way that the users is first presented with the X509 login-page, and
the prompted for the client certificate when he presses the “Certificate Login” button.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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