[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#601797: chromium-browser: does not support Kerberos (GSS-Negotiate)

[brian m. carlson]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 10:09:28PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote:
> "brian m. carlson" <sandals at crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> > Chromium does not currently support Kerberos authentication via
> > GSS-Negotiate.  This makes it significantly less useful for me than
> > Iceweasel, and so it would be nice if it did support that.
> 
> Chromium supports Negotiate Auth (and Kerberos) since version 6, but you
> have to enable it for specific domain at startup:
> 
>   chromium-browser --auth-server-whitelist=*.example.com
> 
> I don't know if there is a runtime option as well.

It's not very useful to me if there's no way to set it permanently.  My
OpenID server authenticates me using Kerberos and restarting the browser
from a command line every time I'd like to use my OpenID is, well, less
than useful.  Also, according to the man page:

  Chromium  has  hundreds of undocumented command-line flags that are
  added and removed at the whim of the developers.  Here, we document
  relatively stable flags.

It's not documented, so I presume that it's not stable.  I want
something that is stable and configurable such that I don't have to run
the program with command-line options (even if that means having to
manually edit something in .config/chromium).  Consider this bug report
a request for that.

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