How to configure Firefox for NTLM SSO (Single-Sign-On)?

Question

My computer and user belonging to the domain, I want to connect to my NTLM-SSO-enabled intranet website http://intranet without providing a login/password.

How to do it with Mozilla Firefox?

Solution 1

• When accessing the relevant site you need to make sure you run Firefox as the Windows user you want to log on as. If you always log onto a workstation as a domain user then there is no issue, otherwise you may need to Shift + right-click the shortcut and choose Run as different user..., or setup a shortcut with your credentials saved
• In Firefox, type about:config In the address bar and press return.
• After the config page loads, in the filter box type: network.automatic. You should see a search result of network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
• Modify network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris by double clicking the row and enter the relevent site
• Multiple sites can be added by comma delimiting them such as: https://your_SecureAuth_FQDN.com, https://www.replacewithyourintranetsite.com
• Click OK. You may need to restart Firefox for changes to take effect.

This is based on numerous pages I found on the internet, including this Firefox support page

Solution 2

To authenticate Firefox automatically through a proxy (avoiding NTLM prompt), you have to modify 3 parameters.

• Open the page about:config (in the address bar)

Add your uris (separate with ,) in the following 3 parameters:

• network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
• network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris
• network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris

and change it with the URL of your proxy redirection page, like http://myproxy.local

Modify

• signon.autologin.proxy to be true

If you do it by script, be careful with the dots (.) and the dash (-) in the parameters. This is often the problem.

Solution 3

The suggested solution with network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris was not enough in my case. Then I tried the same in network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris Now it works.

Solution 4

This worked for me:

Change network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-non-fqdn to True and signon.autologin.proxy to True

Add yourcompanyname.com in:

network.automatic-ntlm-auth.trusted-uris
network.negotiate-auth.delegation-uris
network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris

Solution 5

I modified signon.autologin.proxy to be true (by double-clicking on the preference name) and changed network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris to timecard.example.com and it's working for me, almost too well. When I sign out of the page, it takes me to a sign-in screen, where I'm instantly logged in again. But I can live with that. What is missing is a way to either (a) add another URI with a single click, or (b) use wildcards, such as *.example.com.

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Comments

[shorif2000]

this does not work. i have read the same thing on many pages. is there an update for firefox v30

[James P]

@sharif: Try using the downloading the following add-on: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/… then click Tools->Integrated Authentication Sites and check the box at the bottom that says Enable pass-through on all non-FQDN sites even if they aren't listed here

[James P]

@sharif: The issue that affects Firefox 30 specifically is that insecure v1 of NTLM has been disabled by default. It could be that you need to use the about:config editor to set network.negotiate-auth.allow-insecure-ntlm-v1 to be true. However, NTLMv1 is very old, so I'm not sure if you would be using it. Relevant link: developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Releases/30/…

[Van Jone]

Still not working: FF keeps popping that annoying dialog prompt with already saved username and password

[Van Jone]

Nothing works so far. Whatever I try from all answers here, FF keeps popping that annoying dialog prompt with (already saved!) username and password. Very un-thought design on FF side, I must say...

[James P]

Depending on the situation it might be worth trying with network.automatic-ntlm-auth.allow-non-fqdn set to true, although for me it still worked when set to false and not specifying a domain. Unfortunately Mozilla have made these settings far too numerous and complex

[Michal Bernhard]

network.negotiate-auth.trusted-uris works for me. Eg. when subdomain1.companydomain.cz/identitity/auth is page where authentication through NTML is done, you have tu put value subdomain1.companydomain.cz (ie. protocol and full domain, without path). Note that values are comma (,) separated.

[Adarsh]

Works perfectly for me. My organization uses windows based single sign-on. Tested on firefox v61.0.2