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Posted to dev@directory.apache.org by "Zheng, Kai" <ka...@intel.com> on 2015/01/16 09:07:09 UTC
[Kerberos] About the naming issue for the Kerberos project
Hi Pierre, Stefan, Lucas and other PMCs/committers,
Thanks for your accepting and supporting for the new Kerberos project. As you can see we’re actively working on it and have some new contributors. We would proceed as soon as possible according to the roadmap and plan discussed with you. Generally we’re towards a dedicated Kerberos implementation, Kerberos is the base or foundation and the center concept, by which we would support other authentication mechanisms as well via the well-defined Kerberos pre-authentication framework, have our nice Directory Server as the default identity backend also leveraging the powerful RBAC features as Pierre implied, and have the great management tool Directory Studio in hand. With such support the new product may not be equally strong in security sense as mature ones like MIT Kerberos do in its early phase, but should be good enough in management, easiness and other aspects particularly in Java contexts. As the naming issue does block us a lot, would you give your options to help resolve it the earlier the better, as Kiran suggested. I’m sure “Apache Kerby” isn’t perfect but we would doubt there is ever such one. It’s not a pet’s name as Kiran clarified, but does like a kid of Kerberos. Sure we could have other even better names in future, but if we do we surely also can change to use it too, just like currently I would give up the “Haox” naming even actually I’m not so happy in my heart. Thanks!
Regards,
Kai
From: Zheng, Kai [mailto:kai.zheng@intel.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 10:24 AM
To: Apache Directory Developers List
Subject: RE: [Kerberos] re-organizing the module structure
Appreciate if we could accelerate on this. It makes a lot sense to make the project comfortable for all of us. Thanks!
Regards,
Kai
From: Kiran Ayyagari [mailto:kayyagari@apache.org]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:18 AM
To: Apache Directory Developers List
Subject: Re: [Kerberos] re-organizing the module structure
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Zheng, Kai <ka...@intel.com>> wrote:
Hi Kiran,
Thanks for taking care of this!
Looks like we could re-organize the project much better if we get the naming issue resolved first. For example, if Kerby is used, maybe ‘kerby-asn1’ would be a choice, which allows it to be used in other contexts/projects without worrying about polluting their global namespace.
yes, indeed, we all should come to a consensus on this naming issue
so I request all to cast their vote/opinion here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PODLINGNAMESEARCH-66
Just a quick reply. Will provide my thoughts for each item thoroughly late today.
Regards,
Kai
From: Kiran Ayyagari [mailto:kayyagari@apache.org<ma...@apache.org>]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 8:11 AM
To: Apache Directory Developers List
Subject: [Kerberos] re-organizing the module structure
I suggest we reorganize the modules under directory-kerberos.
All the modules under 'contrib' are essential components hence must be
moved to the project root directory.
Add a new folder 'mech' or 'mechanisms' and move various auth mechanisms
like 'pkix', 'token' etc there.
Move 'haox-kdc/kdc-server' to the root level and the create a new folder
at the root level to hold all the backend implementations (and the ldap-identity-backend
will be moved here).
'contrib' folder can be used to store any contribution from other parties.
And, we should drop the project prefix from the folder names and set
that prefix in <artifactId> in the respective module's pom.xml.
For example, 'haox-asn1' should be renamed to 'asn1' and change the pom.xml
to contain <artifactId>haox-asn1</artifactId>
wdyt?
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Kiran Ayyagari
http://keydap.com
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Kiran Ayyagari
http://keydap.com
RE: [Kerberos] About the naming issue for the Kerberos project
Posted by "Zheng, Kai" <ka...@intel.com>.
Hi Stefan,
Sorry for confusing and late response due to network issue. I'm asking for your help and naming preference options about the new project, just as Kiran requested previously.
Yes you just did when said "Kerby is totally fine for me" and thanks!
Regards,
Kai
-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Seelmann [mailto:mail@stefan-seelmann.de]
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2015 11:57 PM
To: dev@directory.apache.org
Subject: Re: [Kerberos] About the naming issue for the Kerberos project
Hi Kai,
On 01/16/2015 09:07 AM, Zheng, Kai wrote:
> As the naming issue does block us a lot, would you give your options to help resolve it the earlier the better
I don't understand what you asking about, but I hope I don't block you.
Kerby is totally fine for me.
Kind Regards,
Stefan
Re: [Kerberos] About the naming issue for the Kerberos project
Posted by Stefan Seelmann <ma...@stefan-seelmann.de>.
Hi Kai,
On 01/16/2015 09:07 AM, Zheng, Kai wrote:
> As the naming issue does block us a lot, would you give your options to help resolve it the earlier the better
I don't understand what you asking about, but I hope I don't block you.
Kerby is totally fine for me.
Kind Regards,
Stefan