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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDM Kerberos 4 & AFS support
From:       Michael Matz <matz () ifh ! de>
Date:       2000-04-03 7:27:38
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Hi,

On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> >I have a patch against the actual CVSup version of kdm, which adds support
> >for Kerberos 4 and AFS (so the password is checked against the kerberos
> >server and an AFS Token is installed). It also adds the necessary autoconf
> >stuff.
> >
> >The last changes were made some time ago, so who is actually in charge of
> >kdm now? Or should I send the patch to the list?
> 
> What about hacking PAM support instead?  This would buy all sorts of
> authentication abilities, as well as be rather portable, and would be less
> to maintain than a bunch of custom authentication stuff for all the
> possibilities out there.

PAM is not supported by all systems I have access to. But nevertheless we
have Kerberos and AFS as our authentication method. So yes, PAM is fine on
Linux, Solaris (and IRIX, but I've never tested). But if it would be the
only method in KDM, I would have to keep patching each release of KDE
myself ;)


Ciao,
Michael.

P.S: Note that Kerberos 4 is much used in european high energy physics
community, and some of them are using _ooold_ systems (esp. without PAM).

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