OpenSSH, GSSAPI and the Grid Security Infrastructure - GSI

[Douglas E. Engert]

Ben Lindstrom wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 16 May 2003, Booker Bense wrote:
> 
> > - The GSSAPI patches do a lot more than that and you know it. If
> 
> Bingo..you hit the nail on the head.  Can we say it a bit louder so
> the people in the back row can here you? =)
> 

There is another community of users, who want to use OpenSSH  with the GSSAPI,
but not with Kerberos. This is the grid computing community. A component of the 
Globus Toolkit, GSI is a GSSAPI implementation using X509 certificates, and
it supports delegation. See http://www.globus.org and 
http://www-fp.globus.org/security/overview.html

You might also be interested in the Globus Grid Forum, a user's group for the Grid. 
See http://www.ggf.org/

So including the GSSAPI modifications would address the needs of both the
Grid community, and the Kerberos community. 

So please consider the adoption of Simon's modifications.  

 



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