Kerberos enabled SSH library

Vladimir Terziev vlady at gbservices.biz
Fri May 18 10:23:13 EDT 2007


	Try also this:

	http://www.sweb.cz/v_t_m/#putty

		Vladimir 

On Fri, 18 May 2007 09:02:29 -0500
"Douglas E. Engert" <deengert at anl.gov> wrote:

> 
> 
> petesea at bigfoot.com wrote:
> > Is there a Kerberos-enabled SSH library out there?
> > 
> > I'm investigating the development of a custom SSH client that will only be 
> > for internal company use.  The goal will be a single binary our users can 
> > easily download that will then be used to run specific commands to 
> > specific servers.
> > 
> > I would PREFER it supports gssapi-keyex, but would probably settle for 
> > gssapi-with-mic.
> >
> 
> 
> You could look at PuTTY which is uses mostly on Windows, and is
> used by a number of other package in the way you want. GSSAPI mods
> are available:
> 
> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/wishlist/kerberos-gssapi.html
> 
> Look at the "Another patch here adds support for GSSAPI..." which only does
> gssapi-with-mic.
> 
> Unfortunately, the PuTTY developers have not been convinced to add GSSAPI
> support to the base package.
> 
> 
> > I'm starting with Linux, but will eventually need to support Mac, Solaris, 
> > HP-UX and Windows clients.
> > 
> 
> The PuTTY says it will run on Unix.
> 
> > It seems like libssh2 might be a good choice, but it doesn't include 
> > gssapi auth (as far as I know).  Any chance someone might be adding 
> > gssapi-with-mic/gssapi-keyex support to libssh2?
> > 
> > I guess I could try to use OpenSSH, but it's not exactly intended as a 
> > "library"?
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