From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 23 01:16:17 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E97016A4CE for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 01:16:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (mailgate.nlsystems.com [80.177.232.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E44843D2D for ; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 01:16:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from [10.0.0.2] (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) i1N9G3Bh020664; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:16:04 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) From: Doug Rabson To: Joe Marcus Clarke In-Reply-To: <1077491135.75628.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1077452033.2402.7.camel@herring.nlsystems.com> <1077478546.75628.6.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1077490936.2402.16.camel@herring.nlsystems.com> <1077491135.75628.25.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1077527763.2402.20.camel@herring.nlsystems.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:16:03 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on herring.nlsystems.com X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 'clamd / ClamAV version 0.65', clamav-milter version '0.60p' cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: Enabling GSSAPI with evolution X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 09:16:17 -0000 On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 23:05, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 18:02, Doug Rabson wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 19:35, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 07:13, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > > I've been using GSSAPI authentication with evolution for a while now and > > > > apart from problems when the tickets expire (which seems to be a heimdal > > > > issue as far as I can see), it works great. This patch enables GSSAPI if > > > > its installed: > > > > > > Thanks for the patch! What's the impact of doing this by default? What > > > kind of effect will this have on non-krb users? > > > > As far as I can see, none. If you haven't build kerberos, then the > > configure tests for mit kerberos and heimdal will both fail and it won't > > try to build the feature. > > But what about a system where Kerberos was installed (perhaps out of > sysinstall), but it's not being used? I don't think this will cause any > negative impact, but I wanted to be sure. In that case, GSSAPI will appear as an authentication alternative in the settings dialog but it will not work if selected. The user can still select one of the alternatives.