Coda File System

Re: Public/Private Key Auth

From: Mark Phalan <loop_at_netsoc.tcd.ie>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 14:14:29 +0000
Thanks for the info! I'll keep you up to date.

Mark

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:50:06PM +0100, Ivan Popov wrote:
> Hello Mark,
> 
> > I am trying to add public/private key authentication to Coda (Grid Security
> > Infrastructure - www.globus.org/security), much the same way that kerberos
> > support was added. I am quite unfamiliar with the source code and thought
> 
> a nice idea!
> 
> > it might be a good idea to ask where would be the best place to start reading
> > the source - I was thinking of looking at the kerberos support? (Maybe the
> > kerberos author would be able to give me a few pointers?)
> 
> I am not the author, but I think I could help.
> 
> I suppose you look at a recent code tree:
> 
> coda-src/auth2/auth2.c is the server side of the authentication,
> coda-src/auth2/auser.c is the client side routines
>  clog.c is the client application that may use an external service to
> establish Coda tokens
> 
> The kerberos interface implementation resides in krb5.c and krb4.c
> 
> krbsupport.c is the old code, currently not used.
> 
> > Any help, thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated,
> 
> Hope it helps,
> good luck!
> --
> Ivan
> 
Received on 2002-10-29 09:16:29