On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 17:04 -0500, "Frank Balluffi" wrote: > Fredrik, > > GSSAPI is a standard. Kerberos APIs are implementation specific.
Oh, do you mean specific to MIT Kerberos? In that case, it does seem to be making quite some difference. =) Thanks for enlightening me! > Also, > GSSAPI supports many mechanisms. Is that so? I've only ever seen Kerberos being carried out over GSSAPI. What others are there? > Frank > > > > > > Fredrik Tolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 01/18/2005 03:19 PM > > > To: [email protected] > cc: > Subject: Krb5 API vs. GSSAPI > > > Hi! > > I've been writing a couple of programs that use Kerberos for > authentication. I've been using the Krb5 native API, since the example > programs that came with the MIT Krb5 source distribution that were using > the native API seemed much simpler than those that used GSSAPI. > > However, looking around at other programs, it seems that most (all?) are > using GSSAPI. Thus, I'm wondering what the advantages of using GSSAPI > are, and when you should use GSSAPI and when you should use the native > API. I know that GSSAPI is supposed to be able to support other > mechanism apart from Kerberos, but from what I know, this hasn't > happened so far, so that doesn't really seem to be a very great > advantage of using GSSAPI. > > Can someone enlighten me on this issue, please? > > Fredrik Tolf > > > ________________________________________________ > Kerberos mailing list [email protected] > https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos > > > > > ________________________________________________ > Kerberos mailing list [email protected] > https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos > ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
