Porting Heimdal's libkafs to MIT Kerberos

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Tue Jan 13 18:18:16 EST 2004


>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Hornstein <kenh at cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

    >> On Mac OS X, we support a Login Logout Notification Plugin API
    >> to modify the library behavior when tickets are acquired.  This
    >> API exists because of the complete lack of pam on Mac OS 9
    >> (where it was first introduced) and the poor quality of pam
    >> support in early versions of Mac OS X.

    Ken> That's _very_ cool.  I shall definately check that out.
    Ken> Thanks!

And I'd much rather see a solution like this on Unix than extending
the core code.

I think people will find MIT much more interested in working with them
to design plugin APIs than to extend core code.

That said, we're really over worked.  There has been one recent rather
unfortunate effort to design a plugin API where an outside contributor
submitted a design for us to review, and we completely failed to do
so.  No one has had the time.  I'm not sure what to do about this.



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