On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Tod Pike <[email protected]> wrote:

> Gary:
>  I've already got an ugly hack ready - we did something similar to
> use squirrelmail against our GSSAPI IMAP server. We use the imtest
> helper program to open the GSSAPI-authenticated session (passing in
> the Kerberos credential file that we got from the pubcookie module).
> We passed that file descriptor back into squirrelmail, bypassing the
> normal connection open.
>
>
I'd love to see how that code works since the only gssapi implementations I
can find seem to be in C using the C-Client library.


>  I'd like to something similar in roundcube, but it's pretty difficult
> using only plugins. I can certainly set up my own imap_connect hook that
> would open the proper connection, but I don't see any way to put the
> resulting file descriptor into the imap object, since all that stuff is
> private to the rcube_imap_generic module.
>
>
That's what I meant, you need to modify the core code.  At a minimum, you
need to modify rcube_imap_generic to include a case for using GSSAPI.
 Personally, once you start editing that, I'd say move the whole if/then
structure to a switch/case structure as there are then 4 different
mechanisms.

If you want to be really really nice, extend the auth_sasl code
http://pear.php.net/package/Auth_SASL/

The module doesn't currently have a maintainer, so you could update it there
to support GSSAPI and then bring it downstream to Roundcube.

I'm stuck at the moment in conceptualizing how to do GSSAPI authentication
from within PHP[in theory, I know it's just a matter of passing the
challenge token into the function over and over till you get to a success]
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