Enabling GSSAPI with evolution

[Doug Rabson]

On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 23:05, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 18:02, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 19:35, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 07:13, Doug Rabson wrote:
> > > > I've been using GSSAPI authentication with evolution for a while now and
> > > > apart from problems when the tickets expire (which seems to be a heimdal
> > > > issue as far as I can see), it works great. This patch enables GSSAPI if
> > > > its installed:
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the patch!  What's the impact of doing this by default?  What
> > > kind of effect will this have on non-krb users?
> > 
> > As far as I can see, none. If you haven't build kerberos, then the
> > configure tests for mit kerberos and heimdal will both fail and it won't
> > try to build the feature.
> 
> But what about a system where Kerberos was installed (perhaps out of
> sysinstall), but it's not being used?  I don't think this will cause any
> negative impact, but I wanted to be sure.

In that case, GSSAPI will appear as an authentication alternative in the
settings dialog but it will not work if selected. The user can still
select one of the alternatives.