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Re: conflicting gssapi libraries



>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

    Russ> It may be that they were trying to provide an indirection
    Russ> layer between MIT and Heimdal so that people could choose
    Russ> whichever they want at runtime.  I'm not sure of another
    Russ> reason for it.  The UMich library doesn't actually implement
    Russ> GSSAPI at all; it requires that another implementation (MIT
    Russ> or Heimdal) be available and just calls into the other
    Russ> library.

GSSAPI isn't limited to just Kerberos, you could implement other
protocols in GSSAPI too.

Having said that, the only GSSAPI libraries in Debian I know of are
the two Kerberos libraries.
-- 
Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net>



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