www/mozilla and negotiateauth

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:13:47 -0600, Boris Samorodov <bsam at ipt.ru> wrote:

> Hello, Gnome users and maintainers!
>
>
> I'm new to this list. Don't blame me for misunderstanding something. ;-)
>
> My task was to create a package of www/mozilla with negotiateauth
> extension to spread across our company. I managed to do so by
> deletting www/mozilla/files/patch-extensions_negotiateauth_Makefile.in
> from the port's tree. After a success I tried to find out what this
> file was intended for. I gave up even after lookung up at logs at
> cvsweb.
>
> Can anybody here explain it to me? Maybe this file was good with some
> old version of www/mozilla and now is not?

I know nothing about negotiateauth extension stuff, so if I don't hear or  
see from one of my team then I shall commit with bump by remove that  
files/patch-extensions_negotiateauth_Makefile.in. I will giving it two  
days before I start to poke it.

Cheers,
Mezz

> The negotiateauth extension is from MOZ_EXTENSION_DEFAULT list. It's
> very useful at Single-Sign-On environments. But currently it is not
> compiled/installed with the default options (both OS and the
> port). The negotiateauth (i.e. GSSAPI/SPNEGO) support is off at the
> official packages. Deletting the patch from the port changes the
> situation. Am I missing something?
>
>
> WBR


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