Re: multi-mechanism gssapi

[Daniel Kouril <kouril@ics.muni.cz>]

On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 06:27:41PM +1100, Luke Howard wrote:
> A quick look at the code suggests that it isn't thread-safe,
> though, because it uses a global variable to check for
> reentrancy.
> 
> Love: any thoughts on mechglue in Heimdal? I know we've discussed
> it before. I might have some time to work on this soon, particularly
> to fix up Heimdal's SPNEGO support. The lack of separate mechanism
> contexts is making implementing RFC 2478bis a bit tricky. And we
> also have a couple of other (private) mechanisms that would be nice
> to separate out of a big switch statement.

It's possible to use mechglue along with the gssapi library from Heimdal. We
use on our sshd and CVS servers (along with the GSI implementation of GSSAPI)