Larry Osterman wrote...
> There must be interest in adding NTLM support, Marek asked if there are > open-source servers that support NTLM. I said nobody wanted it badly enough - yes Marek is one of the few who are interested - we'll have to wait and see if he contributes any patches to add NTLM authentication to open source projects. > If I could contribute patches > without losing my job, I would, but since I'll be fired if I contribute > patches to an open source project, I'll respectfully decline Wow - where can I apply? I'm sure that with such a terrific environment I could turn out really high quality software. It seems that your employer isn't very interested in supporting interoperability with open source software at all. > (if you > really care, we can discuss what the GPL does to the ability of > professional software developers to contribute to GPL licensed projects > OFFLINE). No thanks - I have no interest in the GPL. I do find it interesting that you use GPL interchangably with "open source" though. > Immediately below the .DOC file that you point out is a "Get Office file > viewer" link. If you follow that link, you will be pointed to the page > that includes the stand-alone word file viewer, it runs on any Win32 > platform. Please look a little closer before you flame. Sit down and take a deep breath Larry... I don't have a Win32 platform. The documentation you offered is not very accessible, and represents a hurdle. Again, I wonder just how interested you and your employer are in wide acceptance of NTLM. > And I gave you a pointer to the first on-the-web version of the > documentation I found. If you want a different one, try > http://search.microsoft.com/gomsuri.asp?n=2&c=rp_Results&siteid=us/dev&t > arget=http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/security/Security/sspi_fun > ctions.asp Thank you, but there doesn't appear to be a good description of NTLM as an authentication mechanism there at all - just more layers of proprietary obfuscation. I will need documentation of how I can implement the NTLM mechanism such that this added functionality in my software will be available for all target platforms. > This is NOT rocket science - it took me all of 45 seconds of looking at > the msdn.microsoft.com web site to find it. Let me know when you find a URL for an RFC. Until that time, I think we're just wasting everyone's time with old information - for a while there I thought you genuinely wanted to see NTLM adopted as an IMAP authentication mechanism in more open source projects. -- Pete Naylor
