Re: multi-mechanism gssapi

[Luke Howard <lukeh@padl.com>]

>> 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)

Sounds good. But we need thread-safety and support for SPNEGO. If
Love and I can agree on a design, hopefully I'll have some time to
work on this in the "holidays". Using the Sun code is an option if
the license is amicable to it being included in Heimdal.

-- Luke

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