What platform does krb5 support. And does it support dynamic libraries on all platforms?

shuaijie wang wangshuaijie at gmail.com
Thu Jul 19 22:37:35 EDT 2012


Thanks for you comments.

2012/7/19 Oliver Loch <o.loch at gmx.net>

> Hello,
>
> IMHO the problem is not if you're able to compile Kerberos on that
> platform.
>
> IMHO you start running into problems if the applications don't support it.
>
> E.g.: OpenSSH supports Kerberos (Heimdal/MIT) on a lot of plattforms. If
> the sshd on your OS doesn't support it, you're lost.
> Same goes for stuff like "pluggable authentication modules (PAM)" and such.
>
> OpenBSD doesn't use PAM so you can run into trouble there (iirc).
>
> cu
>
> Am 19.07.2012 um 17:17 schrieb Greg Hudson:
>
> > On 07/18/2012 10:03 PM, shuaijie wang wrote:
> >> 1. What platform does krb5 support? I mean unix family, linux, AIX,
> >> Solaris, HPUX(PA, IA), does krb5 support all of these platforms?
> >
> > See http://k5wiki.kerberos.org/wiki/Supported_platforms
> >
> > There are known bugs building the current Kerberos release on AIX at the
> > moment.  I'm not sure about HPUX.
> >
> >> 2. I intend to make our code dynamically link to krb5 libs, so I wanna
> know
> >> if krb5 supports dynamic link libraries on all of these platforms?
> >
> > If krb5 builds on a Unix-like platform, it builds with dynamic libraries.
> >
> >> 3. Does MIT provide ready-to-use libraries that I can download for all
> the
> >> platforms? Or must I build it from source on all the platforms all by
> >> myself?
> >
> > For Unix-like platforms, we only provide a source release.  Binary
> > packages are often provided by operating system vendors and package
> > repositories.
> >
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