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[cp-patches] [Fwd: Re: KerberosPrincipal class]


From: Mark Wielaard
Subject: [cp-patches] [Fwd: Re: KerberosPrincipal class]
Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 01:41:31 +0100

Jeff, I think I found the problem. You were sending to @lists.gnu.org
and it is just @gnu.org. Strange you didn't get a bounce. Anyway, here
it goes to the list.

Team, Jeff is working on kerberos support, please help him out by
reviewing his patches.
--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: KerberosPrincipal class Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 18:53:37 -0500
(Please cc: me in replies, I'm not subscribed)

And with apologies if this comes out as a dupe, but the first one seems to have 
gotten lost.

On sam, 2005-11-19 at 10:20 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Please sent it to classpath-patches with the comments
> belows (plus any correcttion if you want) and say that your paperwork is
> on file with the FSF (I checked). And please mention were you would like
> help/people to jump in.

Thanks, here goes. =)

2005-11-18  Jeff Bailey  <address@hidden>

        * javax/security/auth/kerberos/KerberosPrincipal.java: New file.
          (Thanks to Mark Wielaard for reviewing this!)

> > There are three FIXMEs in here.  Two of them have to do with the
> > StringTokenizer bits which I haven't tested because I'd like to make
> > sure that the tests for these go into a testsuite somewhere, rather than
> > me just testing them once.
> 
> See http://www.sourceware.org/mauve/

Thanks, I'll follow up with this.

> > The third one is that I'm not parsing /etc/krb5.conf right now.  Part of
> > what I was thinking is that there should probably really be three
> > implementations of the Kerberos stuff.  The first two are glue code
> > around MIT Kerberos and Heimdal Kerberos.  That way if you have a user
> > who's already got a ticket, it continues to be useful in their Java
> > environment.  The third is a native implementation so that people don't
> > need to install Kerberos in order to have classpath installed.  I
> > imagine for now, it just means another command line switch to configure.
> > 
> > Does this idea work for you?  If yes, I'll slowly chew through the rest
> > of this over the next little bit.
> 
> Yes I think so. You might want to CC Casey Marshall <address@hidden> who
> knows most about the rest of our security framework.

Cool.  I'll do that in a separate thread.  It doesn't affect this class
so much.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey

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