Establishing client credentials (TGT etc.) with GSSAPI

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Mon Feb 23 18:08:41 EST 2009


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:00:55PM -0800, Chris wrote:
> FWIW, I was slightly confused with the language in the GSSAPI RFC
> which seems to indicate that an implementation of a mechanism (e.g.
> Kerberos) is not necessarily compatible with that mechanism used on
> its own.  [...]

I suspect that may have been a reference to how the Kerberos V GSS-API
mechanism is not wire compatible with raw Kerberos V.  Do you remember
what specific text you're referring to, and can you point me at it?



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