[Wocky] SASL vs. GSSAPI

[Paul B. Hill]

Hi,

The Windows Oracle Calendar software (TechTime) has a configuration option
for a couple of authentication methods. These are gssapi:kerberos5,
SASLKerberosv4, CST Basic Authentication, and Standard Authentication.
(Actually the choice are dependant on what other libraries appear on your
system.)

When gssapi:kerberos5 is selected the client will use the CMU SASL libraries
if they are present. However, if the CMU SASL libraries are not present,
then the client will look for gssapi.dll and use that directly. 

If we want to provide authentication patches to Gaim, then a similar
strategy might be the best way to get the Gaim developer community to accept
the changes. 

The clients should see if the SASL libraries are present. If they are, then
any of the SASL mechanisms installed could be used. If the SASL libraries
are not able to be loaded, then see if the GSSAPI libraries can be loaded
directly. 

Paul