Kerberos/GSSAPI--- C++

[Ken Raeburn]

Sorry for the delay.  I was hoping someone with more real-world GSSAPI/ 
C++ programming experience would reply.

> We are in the process of making our application an gssapi compliant. I
> would like to know the software necessary to do the same.Our server is
> running on suze 9.X and would like to install the  kerberos v5 on the
> same machine. The server code is already in C++ and in order to make  
> it
> an GSSAPI  compliant we need to inlcude the gssapi libraries. could  
> you
> specify  the path from where i need or can download these libraries As
> per the  requirement eitther MIT or hemidal is fine...but when i say
> include<gssapi/gssapi.h> ...and building my code where would the
> compiler look for these header files.

If MIT Kerberos isn't available via the OS packaging system, you can  
visit http://www.mit.edu/~kerberos/ and download sources from there.

One thing to be careful of: While we've tried to make our GSSAPI  
headers compatible with C++ (e.g., 'extern "C"' around all the  
function declarations), it is a C API.  We intend to keep future  
versions reasonably backwards-compatible in terms of the C API and  
ABI, but that doesn't necessarily apply to C++ if you do something  
"interesting".  In practical terms, I suggest you avoid depending on  
the specific type definitions used for GSSAPI types -- that is, avoid  
depending on whether we use int vs long for a given 32-bit type if  
both are 32 bits, don't use GSSAPI types in function signatures in  
your ABI (because the name encoding would depend on the typedef),  
stuff like that.

> I would also appreciate if there is a working example on c++, on the
> internet I have seen the GSSAPi programming guide written in c.

Sorry, I can't help you there...

Ken