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Re: [stellation-res] why doesn't stellationd require a "password" argument? 
On Saturday 20 July 2002 08:00 pm, Florin Iucha wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 07:43:39PM -0400, Mark C. Chu-Carroll wrote:
> > > > If there's a good way to use something PAM like without losing
> > > > the cross-platform property, and maintaining the connection between
> > > > the authenticator and the repository, I'd be glad to add it in. I
> > > > haven't had time to explore doing something like that.
> > >
> > > PAM is cross-platform: Linux, SUN, IRIX...
> > > Oh, you mean that "other" OS... 8^)
> >
> > Yes. Unfortunately, I do. We don't do a good job of supporting
> > windows. But at the moment, the things preventing windows support
> > from working are relatively minor (postgres problems). If we switch
> > to a Unix-based authentication system, we're really putting a big
> > barrier up against windows - even if that auth system can be made to work
> > under cygwin. (And I don't think I've seen a PAM implementation for
> > cygwin.)
> >
> > Once the system gets more functional and more stable, we'd really like
> > to try to convince the Eclipse guys to look at supporting Stellation
> > inside of Eclipse. There's zero chance of that if it doesn't work 100% on
> > windows.
>
> I think you should look into JAAS: it is part of the Java2 v1.4 so you
> get it for free. And probably works on windows.

Dare I say it, this would be a really good project for a contributor :-)

I'd like to see better authentication support in Stellation. But to be
honest, there's a lot to do, and most of our time is committed to
other things. The current authentication system is good enough
for now, so the IBM group won't get to looking into switching to a better 
method for a while.

But if it's something that interests you, I'd be glad to give you whatever
help you needed to give integrating JAAS a shot.

	-Mark

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Mark Craig Chu-Carroll,  IBM T.J. Watson Research Center  
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