Re: [9fans] Factotum vs SASL

[Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>]

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to do a comparative analysis of the functions it makes sense to know one
side very well. i found it easier to understand factotum and compare the
others to factotum. to me SASL is more like the functions of factotum's rpc
and proto files.  Window's Local Security Authority (LSA) combined with
Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) and the corresponding protocol
DDL's, is more comparable to factotum's credentials caching,
rpc/proto/needkey, etc fs interface and how it negotiates change of
identity of a verified process using cap(3).  on Linux, for a server,
SASL+setuid program+PAM is sort-of like factotum and SASL+app is sort of
like factotum for a client.


On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <
enrico.weigelt@gr13.net> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I've got the impression that there're some similarities between SASL
> (saslauthd) and Factotum - at least at the point that both are
> offloading actual authentication handshakes to a separate service.
> But I have to admit that I didn't have done a deeper analysis of
> these two.
>
> Could anybody with deeper insight perhaps give some detailed
> comparison between them ?
>
>
> greetings,
> --
> Enrico Weigelt,
> metux IT consulting
> +49-151-27565287
>
>

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