Re: GSS-SPNEGO authentification method for LDAP

Rich Megginson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.directory
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The GSS-SPNEGO is working great for POP/IMAP/SMTP on thunderbird is
> there anyway you could append to the ldap client ?
> 
> Or is there any hidden config/hack we could use to make TB LDAP client
> work with this authentification méthod ?
> 
> I already post the question in mozilla.support.thunderbird over here..
> http://groups.google.fr/group/mozilla.support.thunderbird/browse_frm/thread/9fadbc8d9159d680/307a40bd31fd5c39#307a40bd31fd5c39
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Christian
> 

What OS are you interested in?  There was some work earlier this year to 
add LDAP SASL/GSSAPI to T-Bird - but I haven't heard from that guy in a 
few months now, so I'm afraid that work has stalled.

The Mozilla LDAP C SDK version 6, on unix/linux platforms only, has 
support for SASL/GSSAPI, using the Cyrus SASL libraries.  You might be 
able to hack the t-bird ldap source code to use 
ldap_sasl_interactive_bind() instead of whatever bind method it is 
currently using.  I'm not sure if Cyrus SASL supports SPNEGO.
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