PSA: heads-up replacing mod_auth_kerb with mod_auth_gssapi

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Thu Oct 29 13:04:26 UTC 2015


On 29/10/15 05:31, Joe Orton wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 05:39:05PM -0400, Simo Sorce wrote:
>> Hello fellow Fedora developers,
>> I have relatively recently completed a project to replace the ancient and
>> aging and unmaintained mod_auth_kerb Apache module with a new, slimmer, more
>> modern and maintained module called mod_auth_gssapi[1].
>>
>> The plan is to retire mod_auth_kerb soon and get it out of the distribution.
>> So this is a heads up that if you have a project that somehow relies on
>> mod_auth_kerb it would be nice if you could migrate it to mod_auth_gssapi
>> instead, and if you have any issue doing so (missing features,
>> incompatibilities, anything) that you let us know so we can address whatever
>> problem you may find and accelerate the demise of mod_auth_kerb.
>
> Great, thanks Simo.  I'm not sure if we need a Feature for this, but I'm
> happy to drop mod_auth_kerb in f24+.
>
> I see deps from ipsilon-authkrb and koji-web FWIW.

Thanks Joe,
Ipsilon is going to use mod_auth_gssapi, who should I talk to move 
koji-web to mod_auth_gssapi ?

Simo.

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Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York


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