Password sync plugin, and questions about plugin criticality

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Mon Jun 26 07:44:53 EDT 2006


On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 09:41:58PM +1000, Luke Howard wrote:
> >A pre-auth plug-in framework should be a pretty dumb thing.  As should
> 
> It depends what the pre-auth data actually does, for example
> the S4U2Self PA type changes the handling of a TGS-REQ quite
> significantly.

The MIT krb5 library- and KDC-side handling of pre-auth need some
refactoring, yes.  But once that's done the plug-in framework itself
should be straightforward as there's none of the complications that
there are in GSS mechglue or in PAM.

Nico
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