Hi, QIU! On Apr 17, QIU Shuang wrote: > Hi community, > > This is Shuang Qiu, a student from Shanghai, China, major in Software > Engineering. My field of interests is distributed storage (also a > little knowledge of information retrieval).
There's no task on our gsoc page that quite matches that. Perhaps you could suggest a new one? Something that you'd like to do, that fits in your area of expertise? You are very welcome to propose a new task! > I've focused on the MariaDB project for a while and want to make this > GSoC a first step into this community :). Based on my experience, I > think the Kerberos plugin project meets more my taste (also the full > text search one, unfortunately, which has been crossed out from the > slate). Although not a very tough task at first glance, but I believe > there must be some tricky things behind the scene. > > I've skip the pointer on MariaDB GSoC2013 home page and have some > point unclear. How will we configure the Kerberos server? Do we need > some name resolve protocol to discover the Kerberos service? We should behave similar to other projects. There are IMAP/POP3 servers that can use Kerberos authentication, etc. Admins that have already configured Kerberos-aware services before should find it familiar to configure MariaDB to use Kerberos, there should be no big surprises. Regards, Sergei _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
