Re: Kerberos + GSSAPI support in Tortoise SVN

On 06.10.2010 21:16, Daniel Atallah wrote:
> 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?

It only uses GSSAPI if compiled in.

Stefan

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