Hi, QIU! On Apr 17, QIU Shuang wrote:
Hi community,
This is Shuang Qiu, a student from Shanghai, China, major in Software Engineering. My field of interests is distributed storage (also a little knowledge of information retrieval).
There's no task on our gsoc page that quite matches that. Perhaps you could suggest a new one? Something that you'd like to do, that fits in your area of expertise? You are very welcome to propose a new task!
I've focused on the MariaDB project for a while and want to make this GSoC a first step into this community :). Based on my experience, I think the Kerberos plugin project meets more my taste (also the full text search one, unfortunately, which has been crossed out from the slate). Although not a very tough task at first glance, but I believe there must be some tricky things behind the scene.
I've skip the pointer on MariaDB GSoC2013 home page and have some point unclear. How will we configure the Kerberos server? Do we need some name resolve protocol to discover the Kerberos service?
We should behave similar to other projects. There are IMAP/POP3 servers that can use Kerberos authentication, etc. Admins that have already configured Kerberos-aware services before should find it familiar to configure MariaDB to use Kerberos, there should be no big surprises. Regards, Sergei