Re: SSO for GNOME desktop

[Diego Gonzalez <diego pemas net>]

On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 09:29 -0500, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 15:46 +0530, Kala B wrote:
> >Hi,
> >If there is an SSO provider application on the gnome desktop, what are
> >the applications that typically would make use of this feature?
> >
> >It would be very helpful to get the community's opinion on this. 
> >
> >Does gnome plan to have something like that? Is there already
> >something in that direction?
>
> SSO as in Single Sign On?  Just use Kerberos.  Evolution supports GSSAPI
> (Kerberos) for SMTP, POP, and IMAP, Epiphany supports HTTP Negotiate
> (for Kerberos) for web sites (you need to set a setting in about:config
> though, which kinda sucks), SSH can use GSSAPI, and gnome-vfs also
> supports Negotiate (although you might need to apply the patch I put in
> Bugzilla to fix the Neon GSSAPI code to match Neon 0.25's code -
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159663 ).
Evolution doesn't support GSSAPI authetication for LDAP addressbooks, i filed a bug long ago about this
but i haven't got any answer.

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Diego