This is the gss-proxy project.
Documentation lives in the docs folder of this repository.
The goal is to have a GSS-API proxy, with standardizable protocol and a (somewhat portable) reference client and server implementation. There are several motivations for this some of which are:
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Kernel-mode GSS-API applications (CIFS, NFS, AFS, ...) need to be able to leave all complexity of GSS_Init/Accept_sec_context() out of the kernel by upcalling to a daemon that does all the dirty work.
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Isolation and privilege separation for user-mode applications. For example: letting HTTP servers use but not see the keytabe entries for HTTP/* principals for accepting security contexts.
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Possibly an ssh-agent-like SSH agent for GSS credentials -- a gss-agent.
gss-proxy uses libverto for dealing with event loops. Note that you need to have at least one libverto event library installed (e.g. libverto-tevent).
We have a mailing list and an IRC channel (#gssapi on libera.chat).