[5369] in Kerberos
Re: Looking for X11R6, Kerberos 5 info
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Brezak)
Mon Jun 12 11:27:34 1995
To: Tom Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
Cc: leres@ee.lbl.gov, kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 11 Jun 1995 22:13:31 EDT."
<199506120213.WAA06312@dragons-lair.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:50:40 -0400
From: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>
> >Date: 11 Jun 1995 23:35:27 GMT
> >From: leres@ren.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
> >
> >I rebuilt my X11R6 tree with Kerberos 5 support enabled but have been
> >so far unable to configure a setup that successfully uses it.
>
> I am in the process of changing the X11R6 krb5 support to match the
> new krb5 API. I am also working on adding stream encryption. This
> will cause the old krb5 authentication mechanism to become deprecated
> eventually. The changes should be done around the end of the summer.
> Real documentation on the updated krb5 authentication mechanism should
> also exist around then.
>
How about changing the X11R6 Kerbero5 support to use GSS-API instead of
the native krb5 API ?
Has anyone looked into this ? Comments ?
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