Re: Kerberos + GSSAPI support in Tortoise SVN

On 02.10.2010 17:04, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> Hi there.
>
> Allright...
>
> GSSAPI Take two.
>
> What I did is write a library that provides the same GSSAPI entries as
> the official libraries so you can link it with SASL or Neon.
>
> When you call once of the API's entry it tries to dynamically load the
> Kerberos GSSAPI DLL and call the same entry in that DLL. If the DLL
> can't be found, then it reports an error as if the Kerberos connection
> failed.
>
> So if Kerberos isn't installed, it behaves like GSSAPI wasn't even
> there, and if it is will use it. The advantage of that method is that
> it doesn't need any modifications to the SASL or NEON source code.
>
> This time building TSVN doesn't require any modifications to the
> original build instructions ; it doesn't even need the MIT Kerberos
> source code or SDK. AWK.EXE isn't necessary in the Tools directory
> either.
>
> Let me know what you think
> Jean-Yves

Committed in r20229.
Thanks a lot for this patch!

Stefan

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