systematic Kerberization

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue May 11 04:54:37 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-05-10 at 18:20 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> Applications like the mailbox checker in the gnome panel applets -

One of the bounties was to have an evolution based applet to show when
you have new mail.  Basically, why should you configure your mail
sources twice?  From what I remember (and backed up by the bug --
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127516) someone got one
working, just after the original deadline.

> actually having an applet lib that was kerberos aware (if that is even
> possible) would be really handy for writing kerb apps for an applet.
> like something to reinit your ticket, or blog applet, or any myriad of
> things.

Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see what you can genericize
here.  The applet itself wouldn't have any intrinsic properties related
to Kerberos, it has to do with the way that you actually contact and
authenticate with whatever service you're trying to use and they're all
a bit different here.  As far as the just doing the kerberos bits,
that's what libkrb5 is for.

Jeremy





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