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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