Kerberos bindings for ruby, input requested

Ruby
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I have a basic kerberos C extension done and before releasing it I’d
like some feedback on a couple of things. The extension covers
functions such as authentication and changing passwords, as well as
adding/deleting principals.

  1. Suggestions on a name? Right now it’s called Krb5.

  2. Best way to distribute it? At the moment I just have an
    extconf.rb file. I’ve created gems before but not ones that have C
    extensions. For the moment I will probably just put up a tarball and
    once I know any major bugs are quashed I’ll create a gem.

  3. Desired features
    Right you can authenticate a principle via password, and change a
    principal’s password using krb5_change_password. The only kadmin
    function are creating and deleting a principal. Principal creation
    does support most of the principal options and attributes. Modifying
    existing principals is probably next on the list.

I’ve tested it under Freebsd, and compiled it on debian where it
compiles (with warnings) and runs, but my deb box is behind a nat so
while I know it authenticated to our kdc it wasn’t able to get a reply
back.

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  1. Best way to distribute it? At the moment I just have an
    extconf.rb file. I’ve created gems before but not ones that have C
    extensions. For the moment I will probably just put up a tarball and
    once I know any major bugs are quashed I’ll create a gem.

Better pack it as gem. Do You know, how it is?

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On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 06:37 +0900, snacktime wrote:

I have a basic kerberos C extension done and before releasing it I’d
like some feedback on a couple of things. The extension covers
functions such as authentication and changing passwords, as well as
adding/deleting principals.

  1. Suggestions on a name? Right now it’s called Krb5.

ruby-kerberos is nice and non-annoying. Guaranteed to stick around.
Boring is good sometimes. It’s unsurprising at least.

  1. Best way to distribute it? At the moment I just have an
    extconf.rb file. I’ve created gems before but not ones that have C
    extensions. For the moment I will probably just put up a tarball and
    once I know any major bugs are quashed I’ll create a gem.

Yay for tarballs with extconf. That makes it easy for me to package as
an RPM to include with the linux distro I use and help develop.

  1. Desired features
    Right you can authenticate a principle via password, and change a
    principal’s password using krb5_change_password. The only kadmin
    function are creating and deleting a principal. Principal creation
    does support most of the principal options and attributes. Modifying
    existing principals is probably next on the list.

Modifying for sure, not sure what else. Being able to authenticate a
remote principal would be nice, I want to write kerberos-secured servers
in Ruby.

I’ve tested it under Freebsd, and compiled it on debian where it
compiles (with warnings) and runs, but my deb box is behind a nat so
while I know it authenticated to our kdc it wasn’t able to get a reply
back.

I’d be glad to test at some point soon.

Aria

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snacktime wrote:

  1. Best way to distribute it?
    Not that I have any Kerberos needs atm, but I prefer gems where
    possible. Typical way is to have two variants with the same version
    number – source only, and win32 (precompiled – see
    eigenclass.org). Check out, oh, mongrel for an example.

Devin