FS#17132 - [alpine] enable GSSAPI (Kerberos) support

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ray (ataraxia) - Saturday, 14 November 2009, 02:38 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Saturday, 12 December 2009, 14:45 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

While alpine depends on heimdal, it does not appear to make any use of it.

Alpine does refer to Kerberos support in its README files. It looks like it might only support MIT Kerberos, and it's unclear to me whether it uses it via CyrusSASL's gssapi authenticator. I'm very interested in using that gssapi SASL authenticator in alpine, so if it's possible to get it working that way without some horrible hack, please do so.
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Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Saturday, 12 December 2009, 14:45 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Saturday, 21 November 2009, 03:18 GMT
It would need mit-krb5 which is cureently in AUR. I'm not sure about adding it to extra as we already have heimdal in core which basically do the same thing.
Comment by Ray (ataraxia) - Saturday, 21 November 2009, 03:38 GMT
Not only would mit-krb5 have to be moved in, but I think cyrus-sasl-plugins would have to come in multiple versions, since I don't know that it can be built against both Kerberos implementations at once.

I'd say that if there are sufficient other packages that could make use of this, it could be worth it, but if it's just for alpine, it's probably a bad idea.

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