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Kerberos authentication fails for Firefox flatpak

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dan.j23
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I have a kerberos token on my machine, and I followed instructions like: https://auth.docs.cern.ch/user-documentation/kerberos-authentication/ to allow firefox to trust a specific domain for Kerberos authentication.

The change I made works fine for my Mac.

However, when I try to authenticate within firefox on Linux (ArchLinux 5.10.15-arch1) it does not succeed. I suspect it is related to the fact that Firefox, there, is a flatpak and perhaps can't access the kerberos token? Is there a way around that?

I have a kerberos token on my machine, and I followed instructions like: https://auth.docs.cern.ch/user-documentation/kerberos-authentication/ to allow firefox to trust a specific domain for Kerberos authentication. The change I made works fine for my Mac. However, when I try to authenticate within firefox on Linux (ArchLinux 5.10.15-arch1) it does not succeed. I suspect it is related to the fact that Firefox, there, is a flatpak and perhaps can't access the kerberos token? Is there a way around that?

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dan.j23
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Two links that might help: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/merge_requests/389 https://src.fedoraproject.org/flatpaks/firefox/pull-request/1 though I have to admit that they are a bit over my head...