### SIG Auth

Work this cycle focused on graduating existing functions, and on making security functions more understandable for users.

- Kube-apiserver: Promoted the `StructuredAuthenticationConfiguration` feature gate to GA. ([#131916](https://github.com/kubernetes/...

### API Change

### External credential providers

* delegated authn/z: optionally opt-out of mandatory authn/authz kubeconfig ([#67545](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67545), [@sttts](https://github.com/sttts))

        NtlmPasswordAuthenticator auth1 =
                new NtlmPasswordAuthenticator("DOMAIN", "user", password1, NtlmPasswordAuthenticator.AuthenticationType.USER);

        assertEquals("DOMAIN", auth1.getUserDomain());
        assertEquals("user", auth1.getUsername());
        assertEquals("TypedPass123!", auth1.getPassword());
        assertFalse(auth1.isGuest());
        assertFalse(auth1.isAnonymous());

        assertNotEquals(auth1, auth4);
        assertNotEquals(auth1, new Object());
    }

    // Test hashCode method
    @Test
    void testHashCode() {
        NtlmPasswordAuthentication auth1 = new NtlmPasswordAuthentication("DOMAIN", "user", "password");
        NtlmPasswordAuthentication auth2 = new NtlmPasswordAuthentication("DOMAIN", "user", "password");
        assertEquals(auth1.hashCode(), auth2.hashCode());

- The following features are unconditionally enabled and the corresponding `--feature-gates` flags have been removed: `PodPriority`,...

                auth1.equals(auth3);
                auth2.equals(auth3);
            }
            long totalTime = System.nanoTime() - startTime;

            // Should complete in reasonable time (< 10ms for 3000 operations)
            assertTrue(totalTime < 10_000_000L, "Null/empty password comparisons taking too long: " + totalTime + " ns");
        } finally {
            auth1.close();

				Body:   nopCloser,
			},
			authT: authTypePostPolicy,
		},
	}

	// .. Tests all request auth type.
	for i, testc := range testCases {
		authT := getRequestAuthType(testc.req)
		if authT != testc.authT {
			t.Errorf("Test %d: Expected %d, got %d", i+1, testc.authT, authT)
		}
	}
}

// Test all s3 supported auth types.
func TestS3SupportedAuthType(t *testing.T) {