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This page contain information about Generic Security Service (GSS), a free implementation of RFC 2743/2744.
If you do not know what GSS is, I suggest using the following resources.
GSS itself is licensed under GPL, and the manual is licensed under FDL.
Refer to the GSS Manual web page for links to the manual in all formats; however, quick links to the most popular formats:
GSS has received very little real-world testing and should be considered alpha quality.
The source code framework is in place, an outline of the documentation is ready, and there are some simple self tests. The Kerberos 5 mechanism (RFC 1964) supports mutual authentication and the standard DES cipher. The non-standard 3DES cipher is also implemented, but unfortunately there are no specifications for AES. GNU SASL can use GSS to connect to GNU Mailutils and Cyrus IMAP servers that use the GSS implementations from MIT Kerberos or Heimdal. GNU MailUtils can also use GSS to serve GSSAPI clients. A SSH client and server with GSS authentication is provided by LSH with some patches.
GSS is developed for the GNU/Linux system, but runs on over 20 platforms including most major Unix platforms and Windows, and many kind of devices including iPAQ handhelds and S/390 mainframes.
GSS uses Shishi to implement the Kerberos V5 mechanism.
Projects using GSS include:
A mailing list where GSS users may help each other exists, and you can reach it by sending e-mail to help-gss@gnu.org. Archives of the mailing list discussions, and an interface to manage subscriptions, is available through the World Wide Web at http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gss.
If you are interested in paid support of GSS, or sponsor the development, please contact me. If you provide paid services for GSS, and would like to be mentioned here, also contact me.
If you find GSS useful, please consider making a donation. No amount is too small!
The releases are distributed from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gss/ and http://josefsson.org/gss/releases/.
All official releases are signed with an OpenPGP key with fingerprint 0xB565716F.
GSS is developed in CVS on a private machine. At irregular intervals, it is synchronized against a publicly available machine (just press enter at the password prompt):
$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@yxa.extundo.com:/home/cvs/public-cvs login Logging in to :pserver:anoncvs@yxa.extundo.com:2401/home/cvs/public-cvs CVS password: $ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@yxa.extundo.com:/home/cvs/public-cvs co gss
See the file README-alpha on how to bootstrap and build the package from CVS.
The online CVS repository is available, and there is also some CVS statistics.
A log of recent CVS activity is also available. If you prefer a mailing list, notifications of each CVS change is also sent to gss-commit@gnu.org.
If you have trouble using CVS, you may download
a daily snapshot. The
snapshots are prepared similar to regular releases, i.e., you simply
build them using ./configure && make. There are
also daily Debian
packages built from the daily snapshot source code.
Before each release, the package is built on many platforms. The latest results from the autobuilder are available online.
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Updated: $Date: 2006/04/25 15:37:30 $ $Author: jas $