GSSAPI bindings for C#/.NET

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

21 Mar 2006 8:55 PM

Ian

All,

I was able to find an IETF document proposing some specifications for
GSSAPI C# bindings
(http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-kitten-gssapi-csharp-bindings-00.txt),
but I was unable to find any suitable implementation. The goal is to
use MIT Kerberos to authenticate to remote services. Anyone have any
pointers on this? I'm beginning to feel like the best bet will be to
P/Invoke the MIT Kerberos libs to do this, but it seems like a pure
..NET implementation would obviously be preferable.

There are some Novell-namespaced classes in the most recent mono class
sources that seemed to bear some resemblance to these IETF bindings,
but these just seemed to reference Java classes to provide the actual
implementation.

Further to this, is it possible to use some facilities of the
System.DirectoryServices namespace to communicate with remote
kerberized services without your KDC being AD?

Thanks,
Ian