Re: Kerberos/Heimdal support

[Simone Crippa <crippa kth se>]

Hi,

Alexander Larsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 16:17 +0100, Simone Crippa wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > after some vain search I think I am at the point where a question on 
> > this nautilus list is appropriate.
> >
> > I would like to be able to connect via "Connect to server" to a secure 
> > (heimdal, kerberos5) ftp server. As far as I could see, there is no way 
> > I can achieve this with Nautilus, as I didn't find a way to specify an 
> > own ftp client (e.g. krb5-ftp).
> > Can anyone here tell me if this is possible and I simply didn't search 
> > long enough?
> >
> > If it isn't possible to specify a ftp client, then what about natively 
> > including this option in Nautilus? This would be something unique, as I 
> > also didn't find _any_ ftp client with GUI that supports 
> > kerberos/heimdal! (apart a single Mac OSX client)
> >
> > Again, maybe this is already possible now (compiling Nautilus linked 
> > against the kerberos libraries), but then again, I didn't see any such 
> > option when configuring.
> >
> > Please note that I am not subscribed to the mailing list!
>
> The gnome-vfs ftp code has support for kerberos via GSSAPI. If compiled
> in, nautilus should be able to use this.

Thanks for your answer. Since now I know I am on the right path, I was 
able to discover why it didn't work "out of the box" ... the "box" is 
running Debian Testing, coming with gnome-vfs 2.14.2, which doesn't seem 
to support GSSAPI/ftp. But upstream (experimental) I have noticed that 
gnome-vfs 2.16.3 is compiled against the MIT Kerberos runtime libraries!
The package providing GSSAPI/ftp support is libgnomevfs2-extra >= 2.16.

Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction.


/Simone



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