On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at 07:45:07PM +0000, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Just to add another aspect to the discussion, there are at least 3 DLLs out > there which implement this functionality (Microsoft’s JDBC driver, jTDS > driver and Waffle) + commercial solutions as we have heared. All of them are > used to allow authenticating the current user against services (mostly TDS > (SQL Server), SMB and http. > > So having a GSS provider, even when it is not used by default would hugely > benefit a lot of projects (especially if it does not require JAAS wrapping > and will support Windows 10 with Credential Guard for NTLM and Kerberos)
Good point. Oh, and BTW, Windows too has acquireCredential extensions not unlike gss_acquire_cred_from().
