Variable: gssapi-program

gssapi-program is a customizable variable defined in gssapi.el.gz.

Value

("gsasl %s %p --mechanism GSSAPI --authentication-id %l"
 "imtest -m gssapi -u %l -p %p %s")

Documentation

List of strings containing commands for GSSAPI (krb5) authentication.

%s is replaced with server hostname, %p with port to connect to,
and %l with the user name. The program should accept commands on stdin and return responses to stdout. Each entry in the list is tried until a successful connection is made.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 24.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/gnus/gssapi.el.gz
;;; gssapi.el --- GSSAPI/Kerberos 5 interface for Emacs  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

;; Copyright (C) 2011-2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

;; Author: Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org>
;;         Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
;; Keywords: network

;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.

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;;; Commentary:

;;; Code:

(defcustom gssapi-program (list
			   (concat "gsasl %s %p "
				   "--mechanism GSSAPI "
				   "--authentication-id %l")
			   "imtest -m gssapi -u %l -p %p %s")
  "List of strings containing commands for GSSAPI (krb5) authentication.
%s is replaced with server hostname, %p with port to connect to,
and %l with the user name.  The program should accept commands on
stdin and return responses to stdout.  Each entry in the list is
tried until a successful connection is made."
  :version "24.1"
  :group 'network
  :type '(repeat string))