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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#26729: kerberos authentication wanted in kmail
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-04 18:03:38
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On Monday 04 June 2001 13:31, Christophe Prud'homme wrote:

>   >     Is anyone working on kerb support?
>
> I work at MIT and kerberos would definitely a plus for me too :)
> unfortunately I don't have experience for this kind of stuff
> However I have a book describing relatively well the kerberos system
> so I could give it a try !
> The only thing is that I would definitely need some help to know where to
> start! where do I have to look to add kerberos support for pop3 ? (under
> fetchmail it is called KPOP) is there a description of the way to add a new
> authentication layer on a protocol in kde? (I hope it was not a stupid
> question :) )
>
> BTW I have CVS access so...

   Well I'd rather not work on this but no-one else has started it so I 
figured I'd at least investigate to see what needs to be done.  I have an 
OpenBSD box here which, IIRC, is basically ready for Kerberos from the 
start..  I guess I could use that as a testbed.  I just don't know where this 
stuff has to be implemented.  Is it just the authentication method?  Then it 
might go in the same place as SASL, otherwise [TCP]SlaveBase.  If it's 
throughout the session then it will have to go into [TCP]SlaveBase.

   I'm sure there is probably an RFC for kpop.  If fetchmail supports it, you 
could read that code to see how it's done too.

-- 

George Staikos

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