[Wocky] jabber at Iowa State University

[Greg Hudson]

Hi.  Unfortunately, things are pretty confusing in the world of SASL
support for Jabber right now.

As you've noticed, jabberd 2.1-cvs includes SASL authentication support.
I can also provide patches against jabberd 2.0s10 for this support (the
patches were written by Simon Wilkinson <simon at sxw.org.uk>, who has been
doing most of the heavy lifting in this area).

On the client side, Gaim recently incorporated some code in the mainline
to do SASL authentication, but it needs some work.  We also have patches
against Gaim 1.5 for GSSAPI SASL authentication, which combine work done
by Simon with some work done here.

If you are only interested in taking a password from the client over SSL
and verifying that against the KDC, that's a much simpler problem.  I
can likely provide a patch against jabberd 2.0s10 which does just that.
(It was written by a co-worker here; I'd have to check with him first.
It's really small, though, so I doubt it would be a problem.)

Good luck, and let us know how we can help.

Greg Hudson
Operations and Infrastructure Services
Information Services and Technology