Fw: Kerberos MIT on Solaris

Will Fiveash will.fiveash at oracle.com
Mon Aug 23 16:46:31 EDT 2010


On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 01:41:22PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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?

It isn't supported in Solaris yet.

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