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[QIU Shuang <qiush.summer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sergei,

> 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!

Thank you for the reply and encouragement very much. I'll have a look.

Best regards!
Shuang


On Apr 17, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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