MIT Kerberos: is it Thread-Safe?

[sxw@dcs.ed.ac.uk]

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.