Re: Kerberos/Heimdal support

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 16:17 +0100, Simone Crippa wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after some vain search I think I am at the point where a question on 
> this nautilus list is appropriate.
> 
> I would like to be able to connect via "Connect to server" to a secure 
> (heimdal, kerberos5) ftp server. As far as I could see, there is no way 
> I can achieve this with Nautilus, as I didn't find a way to specify an 
> own ftp client (e.g. krb5-ftp).
> Can anyone here tell me if this is possible and I simply didn't search 
> long enough?
> 
> If it isn't possible to specify a ftp client, then what about natively 
> including this option in Nautilus? This would be something unique, as I 
> also didn't find _any_ ftp client with GUI that supports 
> kerberos/heimdal! (apart a single Mac OSX client)
> 
> Again, maybe this is already possible now (compiling Nautilus linked 
> against the kerberos libraries), but then again, I didn't see any such 
> option when configuring.
> 
> Please note that I am not subscribed to the mailing list!

The gnome-vfs ftp code has support for kerberos via GSSAPI. If compiled
in, nautilus should be able to use this.

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