On Sep 28, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> Kris,
>
>> I would if we could get some -hackers buy in on the idea. Adding
>> more and more auth methods is something they're not excited about
>> unless there's a good reason (which I think this is).
>
> Actually, I've been trying to get some of the Sun engineers to
> contribute patches for Solaris authentication methods, of which GSSAPI
> is one. So in theory someone from Sun should be looking at coding
> this.
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.
See posts on the [ports] list.
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