krb5_get_host_realm & krb5_free_host_realm in kfw

Jeffrey Altman jaltman at columbia.edu
Thu Jul 31 02:31:16 EDT 2003


These are private functions which were removed from KfW as of the API 
cleanup which occurred for KfW 2.2 BETA and Krb5 1.2.8.

Jeffrey Altman


michael.dautermann at umich.edu wrote:

> I'm working on building the KX509 distribution from U-Michigan 
> under both Windows and Macintosh platforms and have run into a 
> perplexin' predicament.  
> 
> On the Macintosh using the built-in libaries included with Jaguar (10.2.X),
> /usr/include/krb5.h there has krb5_get_host_realm and krb5_free_host_realm
> functions defined and public.
> 
> In the latest Kerberos for Windows distribution (2.5-beta-3 & 2.5-beta-4),
> these symbols are behind KRB5_PRIVATE defines in the krb5.h include.
> They're not depricated, they're just not available externally in the libs.
> 
> There's no indication in the header files, or in the source code found
> in krb5\os\free_hstrl.c as to why the change happened and what the
> correct alternative I should be using.  I also searched as far
> back in the krbdev archives as I could look online (about 1000 posts
> back, before the browser times out...).  
> 
> Any suggestions would be helpful.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> m
> 
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