Kerberos in OpenSsh 2.9.9p2

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at ubsw.com
Thu Sep 27 23:45:32 EST 2001


Look in the Linux-PAM CVS repository at SourceForge. In the devl branch
of the PAM_KRB5 module you'll find some Heimdal/MIT compatibility shims.

This module is dual licensed, GPL/BSD (or will be soon -- I think the
devl COPYRIGHT file has the MIT license currently).

Nico


On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 01:34:15AM +0100, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> 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)?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Simon.
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