Re: Kerberos + GSSAPI support in Tortoise SVN

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 14:37, Stefan Küng <tortoisesvn_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06.10.2010 20:33, Daniel Atallah wrote:
>
>> I recently happened across the GSSAPI implementation in PuTTY
>> (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/) and I figured it
>> might be interesting to bring up.
>>
>> It uses a similar approach to dynamically load the Kerberos support
>> library, but takes it a step farther and abstracts out the GSSAPI
>> support so that it can use
>> either MIT K4W or MS SSPI based Kerberos functionality (with a dynamic
>> decision about which to use).
>>
>> The relevant code is here:
>> http://svn.tartarus.org/sgt/putty/windows/wingss.c?revision=9003&view=markup
>
> the neon library already can use both.

Hmm... Then what is the need for this patch?

I guess I didn't look close enough previously to realize that this is
just used for building the GSSAPI SASL module, but if neon supports
that internally, where does cyrus even come into the mix?

-D

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Received on 2010-10-06 21:16:43 CEST