Re: Kerberos support in standard services

[Bjorn Torkelsson <torkel@hpc2n.umu.se>]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 09:38 +1000, Brian May wrote:
> Note: I changed the subject
> 
> >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org> writes:
> 
>     Andrew> SASL covers most of this problem, and as I understand it,
>     Andrew> it is a far more standard solution than kpop.  I don't
>     Andrew> know if the mail clients and server use the sign/seal end
>     Andrew> or just the authentication, but I certainly see GSSAPI as
>     Andrew> a supported password type for evolution.
> 
> I think most servers and clients don't support SASL yet.
> 
> On this mailing list people have said
>  * cryus imap and pop support SASL.
>  * evolution supports GSSAPI (hopefully via SASL?)
> 
> I am not sure if this support is in the Debian package though, I
> can't see SASL in the depends for the packages. Still it is good that
> upstream support it.

$ apt-cache rdepends libsasl2

And that are only the packages that depends on the Cyrus SASL. Evolution
for instance uses it's own SASL implementation IIRC.

/torkel