Samba4: A tool to offer the GENSEC mechanism to external programs

[Gerald (Jerry) Carter]

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Kai Blin wrote:

| I'm working on implementing single-sign-on for the
| wine project. I was planning on using Andrew Barlett's
| GENSEC as implemented in samba4, and after talking
| to him, he suggested in using a tool like ntlm_auth or
| ssh-agent to take care of the actual negotiation with
| the server, instead of having to spin out GENSEC as a
| lib or having to duplicate code.
|
| Any opinions on how the interface should look on
| that tool? Naming suggestions?

Kai,

As I mentioned on IRC I think it would be better to ship
gensec as a shared library in Samba 4.  That prevents code
duplication but also would have a richer interface than
a CLI utility.  Of course, a *.so file would not preclude
a command line tool.






cheers, jerry
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