Re: Centos 6 - What are you looking forward to?

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On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 7:57 AM, John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Mar 2011, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>>
>>> Contemporary versions of git, subversion, and OpenSSH built-in. I'm
>>> particularly looking forward to the built-in chroot capabilities and
>>> GSSAPI support in OpenSSH, and the major release improvements to git
>>> and subversion.
>>
>> What does the new GSSAPI support do for you?
>
> Single sign-on. Your Windows clients, in the right environment, can
> have their Kerberos tickets managed to allow Kerberos tickets, not
> authorized_keys, to be used very effectively and reduce typing
> !@#$!@#$ passwords or manipulating SSH keys. The "development" version
> of Putty also has this built right in, though it's not made it to the
> production version yet.

But that works just nicely with CentOS 5.  I use GSSAPI together with kerberos
tickets plucked out of Active Directory.  Enable GSSAPIDelegateCredentials and
it'll throw your ticket to the remote side, so you can merrily use your
kerberos ticket there too.

jh
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