Re: JAVA Support

["Henry B. Hotz" <hotz(at)jpl(dot)nasa(dot)gov>]

On Sep 28, 2006, at 3:01 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Kris,
>
> > I would if we could get some -hackers buy in on the idea.  Adding
> > more and more auth methods is something they're not excited about
> > unless there's a good reason (which I think this is).
>
> Actually, I've been trying to get some of the Sun engineers to
> contribute patches for Solaris authentication methods, of which GSSAPI
> is one.  So in theory someone from Sun should be looking at coding
> this.

Sun demonstrated that you could build the existing Kerberos support  
with the current Solaris 11 beta's.  They opened the "native" MIT  
Kerberos API for outside use.

See posts on the [ports] list.
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