[Wocky] Jabber Kerberos patches

[Greg Hudson]

MIT is gearing up for a pilot introduction of a Jabber service, and we
were highly encouraged to see your July 7 post about Kerberos support
in jabberd2 and several Jabber clients
(http://mail.jabber.org/pipermail/jabberd/2005-July/002797.html).  We
were planning to do essentially the same thing ourselves, and this
should dramatically reduce the cost of doing so.

Can we get ahold of your patches for Gaim?  Our current plan is to
recommend Gaim on Linux and Solaris, Adium X on MacOS X, and Exodus on
Windows, as those appeared to be the best-of-breed Jabber clients on
those platforms.  It looks like only Gaim is on your hit list, but
that's still a good start.

We'll also likely be interested in testing server-to-server Kerberos
support, although that's less of a priority for us.

Thanks for your work on this.  It's always great from an MIT
perspective to see application support for Kerberos authentication
coming from outside of MIT.

Greg Hudson
Operations and Infrastructure Services
Information Services and Technology