[Dovecot] [patch] gssapi support

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Jul 12 17:49:57 EEST 2004


On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 17:20, Colin Walters wrote:
> I've been working on a patch for GSSAPI (Kerberos) support.  It seems to
> work pretty well for authentication (I've tested it with Evolution,
> fetchmail, and mutt).  I have also been working on implementing
> integrity/confidentiality protection.  Unfortunately not many clients
> support this - the only one I've found really is mutt, which seems to
> disconnect from the server for some unknown reason not long after a
> Kerberos-secured conversation.  I'm still trying to track that down.
> 
> But anyways the patch is far along enough that I think it's worthy of
> review and testing.

Thanks, I took a quick look through and it looked good. Integrity proxy
should perhaps be moved into lib-auth in case it gets useful for other
things than login process.

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