On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Larry Osterman wrote:

> IMHO, the only reason for an open source server running on W2K to NOT
> support NTLM authentication is bigotry - the SSPI APIs needed to support
> NTLM are pretty simple to support and are well documented.  Oh, and you
> get K4/K5 authentication for free, since there's an SSPI provider for
> K4/K5 available in SSPI.

There is no support (thank goodness) for Kerberos v4 in any Microsoft
platform.  Of course, SSPI does support Kerberos v5 on Win2000 and XP, so
as you say any properly-written application, client or server, should
naturally support Kerberos v5 authentication.

Can you comment on the status of Kerberos authentication support, for
IMAP/POP/SMTP, in Exchange Server and in the various Microsoft email
clients?  Last I heard, none of them can use it today.

 - RL "Bob"


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