Question about krb5_kuserok() and .k5login

Matthew N. Andrews matt at slackers.net
Mon Apr 11 20:07:52 EDT 2005


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> 
> As long as we are headed in that direction would it make sense to the
> Kerberos community for us to begin looking at the issues that would
> need to be addressed with providing an alternate fulfillment hook for
> krb5_kuserok?  Considering the discussions on the topic, extending
> functionality for krb5_kuserok would seem to be an obvious candidate
> for inclusion into the plug-in architecture.
> 
> Any comments or suggestions would be welcome.
> 
> 

I for one would love to see a mechanism for retrieving authorization 
data from an ldap directory. some sort of plaintext mapping file support 
would also probably be nice(system, not user managed).

-Matt Andrews

>>--Sam
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> As always,
> Dr. Greg 'GW' Wettstein
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