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Re: LDAPI documentation (was Re: Graphical LDAP clients with SASL support)



> > >performing both administrator and regular user binds
> > >to my server right now.  I can certainly see myself
> > >using other mechanisms in the future if they were
> > >available, but I've tried every single GUI LDAP client
> > >that I can find (GQ, JXplorer, and probably 5 or 6
> > >others whose names don't come to mind right now), and
> > >none of them support it.
> > GQ supports GSSAPI.  Use it every day.
> Would you mind sharing the details of your setup (both server and client)?  
> I tried it with 0.6 and with 1.0Beta1 and it most definitely did not work 
> for me.  When I asked about it on their mailing list, I was told that the 
> author(s) knew they did not have SASL functioning in GQ and had no plans 
> to add that functionality whatsoever.  Somebody on their list gave me 
> this pointer:
> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=6350592
> so if you're really using GQ with SASL/GSSAPI, I'd really like to learn 
> the details of your implementation.

Client and server are both "standard" Kerberos client & server.

GQ packages at -
ftp://ftp.kalamazoolinux.org/pub/projects/awilliam/ldap/gq

Maybe it isn't GSSAPI but just straight Kerberos support, been using it
so long I've forgotten; but it works.  It is just a ./configure option
to enable kerberos, drag-n-drop, etc.... none of which are on my
default.