Josh Berkus wrote:
> Henry,
>
>> Sun demonstrated that you could build the existing Kerberos support
>> with the current Solaris 11 beta's. They opened the "native" MIT
>> Kerberos API for outside use.
>
> Yes, and this will be available via the supported version in Solaris 10 Update
> 4.
>
> However, that doesn't change that some people would like us to support GSSAPI,
> and there may be some benefit (additional applications, better network
> authentication, etc.) for doing so. If we can get additional programmers to
> code the support (i.e. Sun, JPL) I don't see any reason not to support the
> *additional* authentication methods.
Is there any reason why we haven't built a generic authentication API?
Something like PAM, except cross platform?
Joshua D. Drake
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