Kerberos auth to IMAP server

Kerberos auth to IMAP server

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

Has anyone managed to get kerberos authentication functioning?  I have a
functioning kerberos environment and other IMAP clients (like Alpine) can
do kerberos auth without issues.  But I've had no luck with Gnus.

I found some instructions at
  http://josefsson.org/nnimap/nnimap.html#SEC19
but I think they are somewhat out of date.  I do have imtest in my path,
just in case.

I also found:
  https://people.kth.se/~kurlberg/kth-comp.html#sec-1-3
And I do have the GSSAPI SASL module installed.  However, setting
nnimap-stream and nnimap-authenticator in my select method just results
in an error:

Unable to open server nnimap+imap.math.uh.edu due to: Unknown stream type: gssapi

I get the impression that Gnus has changed so much that none of these
instructions currently relevant.  Am I not supposed to be using select
methods currently?

 - J<

Re: Kerberos auth to IMAP server

[Adam Sjøgren]

Jason L writes:

> Has anyone managed to get kerberos authentication functioning?

I tried a little bit a while back. I got some error from gsasl, which I
asked about on the mailing list, but eventually couldn't resolve.

[news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:15787
gmane.comp.gnu.gsasl.general:447 - the web interface seems down right now]

(This was against Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange -
which may be my the root problem in my case...)

Unfortunately no success story, I still have to type in my password in
Gnus.

If you figure out something, do share!


  Best regards,

    Adam

-- 
 "More than anything, I won't try"                            Adam Sjøgren
                                                         asjo@koldfront.dk