On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 10:53 -0400, Stefan Teleman wrote: > Octave Orgeron wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Looks good. In the section that shows its dependencies, I had a > > question. Are we going to include LDAP, Kerberos, etc support or just > > the minimum support? If the components are in the OS, I think we should > > enable the features. Otherwise, we'll be giving customers a reason to > > go an compile their own version, which I think we are trying to avoid. > > > > Octave > > The plan definitely includes LDAP and Kerberos bindings. > > The problem is that CURL assumes the OpenLDAP and MIT Kerberos 5 API's and > refuses anything else (modulo some patching which will not be accepted > upstream). > > I know that the Kerberos 5 team is working on the MIT API Compatibility > Layer, > and that it will become available in Nevada. I don't yet know about LDAP. >
libkrb5 was introduced in build 38 (PSARC 2006/027). It should be (basically) compatible with the MIT API. Our Kerberos implementation is based on MIT's. -Mark > --Stefan >
