Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 11:29:19 -0700 From: Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@rabson.org> Cc: bf1783@gmail.com, freebsd-security@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@bimajority.org> Subject: Re: Our aging base system heimdal Message-ID: <20100607182919.GB25163@lizzy.catnook.local> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimWCsuKCTBCS5la4fGpM2v5Rh8_ZWDKOEzJfApE@mail.gmail.com> References: <AANLkTik213g_8W2ocr3mCCb2EED8RBXsYBavdYll1PI_@mail.gmail.com> <19467.61790.690469.182207@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <AANLkTimSdNOfX7kKgjWwUXuuRGISMrtzQVhQINaCfTml@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimWCsuKCTBCS5la4fGpM2v5Rh8_ZWDKOEzJfApE@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 03:15:27PM +0100, Doug Rabson wrote: > On 6 June 2010 21:09, Jos Backus <jos@catnook.com> wrote: > > > Any chance the kadmin protocol will ever be standardized? > > > > > My understanding is that the MIT kadmin protocol is based GSS-API > authenticated RPC which FreeBSD didn't support until recently. I added > working RPCSEC_GSS to our userland RPC library in 2008 and it should be > available in FreeBSD 8.x and later. In theory, if MIT actually document > their protocol, it should be reasonably straightforward to support it. I > doubt if I will be able to do the work either for this or for upgrading > heimdal. Thanks, Doug. It would be great if the Heimdal and MIT folks would cooperate on this standardization/documentation effort, but perhaps it's not seen as a priority. -- Jos Backus jos at catnook.com
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