Enabling GSSAPI with evolution

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon Feb 23 09:27:57 PST 2004


On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 04:16, Doug Rabson wrote:
> 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.

Good enough for me.  I'll commit this later today.  Thanks again.

Joe

> 
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