On Windows, the disjoint between afscreds and Leash32 has been a long
standing proble m. Over time, this problem has been lessened by
adding AFS token management features to Leash32. However it has been
problematic to integrate user interface changes to Leash32 as
development of OpenAFS progressed. Khimaira solves these problems by
havi ng a plug-in extensible architecture. The main application
itself does not have any knowledge of AFS or Kerberos and relies on
individual plug-ins to provide this knowledge. The OpenAFS and MIT
Kerberos plugins can be maintained independently of the core
application allowing individual projects to add or manage features on
their own. As a result, users are able to use Khimaira as a single
front end to manage credentials and configuration for both OpenAFS
and Kerberos.