The Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface is an abstract interface for creating security contexts between two peers to allow for secure passing of messages and other operations, which allows for the use of many different underlying security mechanisms. Kerberos 5 is a common such security mechanism, but is far from the only mechanism in use. Many krb5 implementations provide a GSSAPI library that provides the krb5 mechanism(s); in some cases, those libraries can also support user-provided GSSAPI mechanisms as well. The only implementations of the GSSAPI which are currently supported by the USES=gssapi support in the Ports Collection are such libraries provided by krb5 implementations. Approved by: hrs (mentor) |
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