Kerberos in OpenSsh 2.9.9p2

Hans Insulander hin at stacken.kth.se
Thu Sep 27 18:17:16 EST 2001


Simon Wilkinson <simon at sxw.org.uk> writes:

> I note with interest that Kerberos support is now available (for the version 
> 1 protocol, at least) in OpenSSH 2.9.9p2. However, it does not build with MIT 
> Kerberos, due to the usual Heimdal/MIT library differences. These look, by 
> and large, like the same problems I encountered when porting Dan Kouril's 
> patch to MIT Kerberos - so I'm having a go at fixing them (my GSSAPI patches 
> need to use the KRB5 define too :-)
> 
> If I package these fixes up and submit them, is there any likelihood of them 
> making it into the portable code (suitably #ifdef'd, of course)?

Please get the MIT people, Heimdal people and the Kerberos community to
define and implement a common API instead. Maintaining #ifdefs is a RPITA.

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