Fw: Kerberos MIT on Solaris

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Mon Aug 23 16:41:22 EDT 2010


Will Fiveash <will.fiveash at oracle.com> writes:

> Well, libkrb5 is supported in Solaris 10, however (as noted),
> Solaris libgss != MITKC libgssapi_krb5 
> in regards to interfaces.  Really though, the point of libgss is to
> insulate a caller from the specifics of security mech used.  If the
> caller needs to do krb specific things then it should link with libkrb5.

Assuming that your API split between libkrb5 and the GSSAPI interface is
similar to that in MIT, I don't believe there's any function in libkrb5
that is a substitute for gss_krb5_ccache_name.  But maybe on Solaris you
moved that function to libkrb5?

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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