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Chrome and SPNEGO

Update, Aug 2015: The landscape on OS X has changed several times since this post was written. Chrome on the Mac now fully supports the “defaults” mechanism to set policy defaults. Chrome on Linux gained a proper managed configuration, which we use locally (I produced the lcfg-chrome component for this purpose).

Quick guide to configuring SPNEGO on the Mac:


$ defaults write com.google.Chrome AuthServerWhitelist <cosign.server.tld>
$ defaults write com.google.Chrome AuthNegotiateDelegateWhitelist <cosign.server.tld>

Restart Chrome and rejoice. What follows is probably only of historical interest…


I was most impressed by the efficient conclusion to the enhancement request for SPNEGO on Chrome, but having read that the request had been met, I struggled for far too long to discover how to activate it.

Irritated by Firefox 4 beta 7’s breakage of SPNEGO on the Mac*, but reluctant to revert 3.6, I felt it was time to reinvestigate the alleged Chrome support Continue reading