[Spice-devel] kerberos for clients?

Yaniv Kaul ykaul at redhat.com
Thu Apr 22 07:51:16 PDT 2010


  On 4/22/2010 4:07 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Has anyone looked at making the spice clients use Kerberos/GSSAPI for
> authentication? Since F11, Fedora has had this for VNC:
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> <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/VirtVNCAuth>
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> and it'd be a shame to not have the equivalent in Spice. This seems very
> important for real-world enterprise-scale deployment, but I don't see it on
> the "Future Features" list.

I second - should use the same SASL auth framework that is used by 
QEMU-VNC and get rid of the ticket mechanism.
Y.

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> On another note... having a gtk-spice widget would also be hugely helpful
> for virt-manager, etc. -- that's another issue I'm sure you're already
> keenly aware of. :)
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