Re: PAM vs GSSAPI?

[Simon Josefsson]

Hi!  As a student you have a lot of flexibility, and can pretty much
propose anything you'd like, however it will be evaluated by all the
other mentors, so co-ordination leads to a higher chance of
acceptance.

I submitted a PAM project idea to the GNU project list, but it hasn't
been published yet:

http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas.html

+<li>Improve the PAM module for host-based authentication using Shishi,
+possibly including a mechanism to automatically create Kerberos
+principals for existing "password"-based users, to allow smooth
+transition.

Have a look at the 2006 ideas too in case you find something of
interest:

http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2006.html#gss
http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2006.html#shishi

Btw, the Google deadline seem to be March 26, not the 24th which I
might have said earlier.

I'm also the mentor for some other projects too:

http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2006.html#gnutls
http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2006.html#libidn
http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/ideas-2006.html#sasl

/Simon

"Ashwin Ganti" <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Simon,
>
> I am very interesed in working on this.
> Please let me know the project idea so that I can write a proposal and
> submit it asap.
> I have signed up as a student for SOC.
> I shall start working on the proposal once I know the project idea.
>
> Thanks
> Ashwin.
>
> On 3/20/07, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> >> 3. This is not related to the current topic but when I was going
>> >> through the pam_shishi there seems to be many TODO's in the code for
>> >> many of the pam support functions. Would it be possible to include
>> >> this as a Google Summer of Code project for this summer . I would like
>> >> to volunteer to work on it to complete the pending implementation and
>> >> put it as the summer of code project. Please let me know if this is
>> >> feasibe or if there is any other work related to this area.
>> >
>> > Oh boy, yes, that would indeed be possible, and I'd be very interested
>> > to work with you on this.  Shishi is a GNU project, and GNU has been
>> > approved for SOC.  Please sign up as a student if you haven't done so
>> > already.
>>
>> Btw, some links that you should read if you are really interested in
>> this:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/soc-projects/guidelines.html
>>
>> /Simon
>>
>
>
> -- 
> Impossibility is a relative concept