From kde-core-devel  Mon Apr 03 18:59:55 2000
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 18:59:55 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KDM Kerberos 4 & AFS support
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On Mon, 03 Apr 2000, Michael Matz wrote:
> 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 ;)

Please send me the patch.

Cheers,
Waldo