Bug 132033 - Enable GSSAPI / kerberos support for Mozilla / FireFox
Summary: Enable GSSAPI / kerberos support for Mozilla / FireFox
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mozilla
Version: 3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Christopher Blizzard
QA Contact: Ben Levenson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-09-07 23:16 UTC by Dax Kelson
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-09-08 19:13:13 UTC
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Description Dax Kelson 2004-09-07 23:16:39 UTC
Description of problem:

One of the new features of Mozilla 1.7 touted in the release notes is:

"Support for Kerberos HTTP authentication using GSSAPI (benefits
Unix-like platforms including Linux and OS X)."

To enable this you need to pass --with-gssapi to the configure script
during compile.

The current spec file doesn't have this.

Increasingly the single-sign-on benefits of Kerberos are driving
deployments. This feature of Mozilla coupled with mod_auth_kerb for
Apache make for a complete open source solution for secure
single-sign-on web applications.

Please consider making this simple change to the spec file. You
probably also want to add krb5-devel to the BuildReq line.

Comment 1 Christopher Aillon 2004-09-08 19:13:13 UTC
This is already enabled implicitly.  The --with-gssapi flag is only
required if you have it installed in a weird place.  Mozilla finds the
correct headers, and if you'll notice, we do build with it (the
negotiateauth extension)


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