SSH2 GSSAPI/KerberosV.

[Damien Miller]

Lewis Thompson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I've just set up OpenSSH to authenticate through Kerberos tickets.  I
> spent a whole while figuring out I couldn't use SSH2 before stumbling
> across the information somewhere.  First of all:  is it possible this
> could be made very noticable in the sshd_config file?
> 
>   Secondly, is there any chance that SSH2 /will/ become supported in the
> future?  There are already patches at
> http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/patches/openssh.html and as I
> understand, this is where the SSH1 patches were held before they were
> ``officialised''.  Sorry if this is the wrong list, but I figured you
> were the people in the know!

This has been discussed a couple of times on this list, so check the
archives for details. The patches are being worked on, but progress is
slow because of the lack of assistance (despite all the talk from people
asking for the patches to be merged).

-d