Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#10266 new Patch
Implementation of Kerberos/GSSAPI support (RFC 2228) — at Version 4
| Reported by: | Ken Hornstein | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | FileZilla Client |
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Description (last modified by )
I've implemented Kerberos/GSSAPI support (RFC 2228) for the FileZilla client. I've made sure my changes work against the most recent source code of FileZilla. I've tested this on MacOS X and Windows, and I believe there should be no problems having it work on Linux.
I'd like to get this into the FileZilla source code. So ... what do I need to do to make this happen? Should I just post the patch here?
Change History (5)
comment:1 by , 10 years ago
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comment:2 by , 10 years ago
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Okay, it's been attached to this ticket. A few changes for building on Windows with MinGW have been included, but those should be obvious.
comment:3 by , 8 years ago
Is there any possibility of getting these features included in FileZilla?
I work at a national laboratory that uses Kerberos heavily, and there is a serious lack of third-party support on Windows. Only one major SFTP GUI can use Kerberos authentication (rhymes with "ShminSCP") and it's barely functional in general.
I know that many years ago, Kerberos support was removed due to the lack of a testing environment. Perhaps the FileZilla developers can contact the kfwdev list (https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/contact.html) to establish such a test setup. There are many Windows users who would greatly appreciate being able to use FileZilla with Kerberos.
comment:4 by , 7 years ago
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| Status: | new → moreinfo |
Please use FTP over TLS with password authentication. It's perfectly secure and MANY MANY MANY orders of magnitude easier to use than this GSS kludge. It's also much faster.
For this patch to be eligible I require instructions how to properly setup GSS infrastructure within 5 minutes on a standard Debian machine.
Yes, please post the patch here as unified context diff against the current trunk HEAD of the FileZilla SVN repository.