[Wocky] Re: Jabber Kerberos patches

[Simon Wilkinson]

Greg Hudson wrote:
> Can we get ahold of your patches for Gaim? 

Certainly. I've attached them to this email. They're also in AFS at
/afs/inf.ed.ac.uk/user/s/sxw/Development/Jabber/Gaim - although our AFS
 is in prototype form at the moment ... The 1.3.1 patch also applies to
1.4.0

> 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.

I'll be attacking Adium just as soon as my new Mac arrives, hopefully
within the next week or so. My hope is that as Adium is built on
libgaim, it should be fairly simple to port the Gaim patches over.

I took a look at Exodus, but its written in Delphi, which I don't have
immediate access to a development environment for.

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

Yes - Our (Informatics at Edinburgh University) interest in this is a
fairly low priority item, too.

> 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.

That's OK. I've had a remit for a few years now to look at better
integrating applications with our Kerberos infrastructure - which has
led to the Kerberos support in OpenSSH, the Jabber code, and (shortly)
GSSAPI support in Thunderbird. It's good to see other people interested
in the code.

Please keep me posted with how you're getting on.

Cheers,

Simon.
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