Re: Compiling OpenSSH with Kerberos support

From: pseudometric (res_at_qoxp.net)
Date: 11/28/05 

Date: 28 Nov 2005 10:00:12 -0800

[Vishal sent me private email; following up here.]

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Gupta, Vishal wrote:

> I intend to use the kerberos installation that comes by default with the
> Solaris OE. I cannot find the krb5.h header file. (I read on some
> website that Sun intentionally does not provide this file)...

This is correct. The MIT Kerberos API is not a standard, and Sun does
not consider it stable enough to support. The only way you can use
Kerberos with Sun's software is via GSSAPI. This is the rationale I
got from Sun support when I ran into this same issue.

As a result, we had to compile & install MIT Kerberos alongside Sun's
version, even though the overlap. We use Sun's where possible, and MIT
when we have to. I pray it doesn't cause us some obscure problem
someday.

- Richard

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