Putty + GSSAPI from W2k3 terminal server to linux openssh daemon

Jeffrey Altman jaltman at secure-endpoints.com
Fri Oct 31 06:49:24 EDT 2008


Jonathan Barber wrote:
> After downloading putty from here:
> http://web.mit.edu/jaltman/Public/putty-0.59-with-gssapi.zip
>
This version is known to be buggy and should have been deleted from
that location long ago.  It now has been.
> and copying the dll's from the MIT NetIDMgr install to
> C:\Windows\system32, 
Why are you copying DLLs from the installer directory to \WINDOWS\System32?
Application binaries do not belong there.
> we get the following message from putty when we try
> to connect to a kerberised ssh server:
>
> Event Log: GSSAPI error: Unspecified GSS failure.  Minor code may provide more information
> Event Log: GSSAPI mech specific error: Cannot resolve network address for KDC in requested realm
>
> The same ssh server works fine from a linux client with the same
> principal.
the problem is not your ssh server, its the putty client.

Secure Endpoints provides gss putty clients that work (for 32-bit and
64-bit windows)
to its clients. 

Jeffrey Altman
Secure Endpoints Inc.


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