What happened to the "XDM-AUTHORIZATION-2" authentification scheme ?

Alan Coopersmith Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Fri Mar 18 12:32:54 PST 2005


Felix Schulte wrote:
> Lack of interest? All OS vendors which want to sell their products to
> the DOD have to met the requirement that their products can operate in
> a IP6-only environment by 2007/2008.

So?   XDMCP can work in an IPv6-only environment - you just can't use
the XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1 scheme, but would need MIT-MAGIC-COOKIES or
another mechanism instead.

In any case, if anyone who needs it wants to put in the work, there's
nothing stopping them, but so far, no has needed it enough to do so.
I'd love to see it done, but I've already got far too much on my to-do
list already to get to it anytime soon.

(In Sun's case, we've never supported XDM-AUTHORIZATION-1, so we
  already work just as well in IPv6 as we do in IPv4 for XDMCP.
  I don't know about any other vendors.)

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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