Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:55:43 -0400 From: gtodd@bellanet.org To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Our aging base system heimdal Message-ID: <4C10E0CF.9090508@bellanet.org> In-Reply-To: <20100607182919.GB25163@lizzy.catnook.local> References: <AANLkTik213g_8W2ocr3mCCb2EED8RBXsYBavdYll1PI_@mail.gmail.com> <19467.61790.690469.182207@hergotha.csail.mit.edu> <AANLkTimSdNOfX7kKgjWwUXuuRGISMrtzQVhQINaCfTml@mail.gmail.com> <AANLkTimWCsuKCTBCS5la4fGpM2v5Rh8_ZWDKOEzJfApE@mail.gmail.com> <20100607182919.GB25163@lizzy.catnook.local>
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On 06/07/2010 02:29 PM, Jos Backus wrote: > 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. I think there was a little bit of compatibility work done for the 1.3.2 release of heimdal. Of course this is not the same as standardization.
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