MIT Kerberos: is it Thread-Safe?
sxw@dcs.ed.ac.uk
sxw at dcs.ed.ac.uk
Mon Jul 28 19:09:30 EDT 2003
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003, Nikola Milutinovic wrote:
> As the subject says, is MIT Kerberos thread-safe and if it is, which version?
>
> OpenLDAP FAQ warns that MIT Kerberos libraries are not thread safe
If you're purely using Kerberos V through the SASL interface, you can get
around this by patching the Cyrus SASL GSSAPI library to mutex protect
all calls to the Kerberos library. We're doing this with a busy LDAP
server running on a quad processor machine, without any problems.
Cheers,
Simon.
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