[Engine-devel] Adding Authentication mechanism to oVirt

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Thierry Kauffmann" <thierry.kauffmann at univ-montp2.fr>
> To: "Alon Bar-Lev" <alonbl at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Yaniv Kaul" <ykaul at redhat.com>, "Itamar Heim" <iheim at redhat.com>, "engine-devel" <engine-devel at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 9:14:19 AM
> Subject: Re: Adding Authentication mechanism to oVirt
> 
> 
> Le 12/12/2012 17:53, Alon Bar-Lev a écrit :
> 
> 
>> Hello Thierry,
> 
>> If I understand correctly you wish to help in modifying the engine to
>> support non GSSAPI authentication methods. Hi Alon,
> 
> you're right.
> My main (selfish) goal is to adapt oVirt authentication schemes to
> our requirements : that is "LDAP SIMPLE auth over startTLS."
>
>> Following is a quick design goals for this implementation.
> 
> I will be glad to improve this.
> Alon Thanks a lot for this description.
> 
> Tell me how I could help : I am more a system administrator than a
> developer. I kwon a bit of java (at least I can read and understand
> oVirt's code that I downloaded recently).
> 
> Thierry

Well, nobody is working on this one, so helping is actually implementing that... I believe it will be difficult to do so without some java and/or infrastructure background... but it is a great challenge!

Alon