Kerberos support (was: Re: [linux-cifs-client] Case sensitivity in Kerberos principal names.)

simo idra at samba.org
Sun Dec 3 01:37:28 GMT 2006


On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 02:21 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 20:34 +0100, Bjørn Tore Sund wrote:
> > To 
> > sidetrack this discussion even further - what is happening with Kerberos 
> > support in mount.cifs?  Any chance of it appearing sometime soon?
> From what I've understood, 2.6.19 will contain some infrastructure that
> is required to do this sort of thing and that once that release is out,
> work on Kerberos support can begin. Steve, please correct me if I'm
> wrong.

CIFS VFS can be made to work with kerberos without necessarily waiting
for 2.6.19, but it requires some infrastructure we are working on.

Simo.

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