ask for some suggestions about how to learn Kerberos API

[Stefan (metze) Metzmacher]

Hi shuaijie,

> Currently I am kerberorizing our project, and I find that the kerberos
> library manual is rather obscure, for example, I know that there ought to
> be some ways using the API to achieve "reply detection" function described
> in the protocol, but I just don't know what combinations of the API
> functions can achieve this goal, so can anyone give me some advice of how
> to learning the APIs in a systematical view? Or is there some good
> tutorials on how to use kerberos API? I want to know how to combine these
> individual library calls to achieve certain functions in the protocol,  and
> reading source code directly is very time consuming, thank you.

If you design something new, you should use gssapi instead of krb5 directly.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSSAPI it has references to the related
RFC's
which document the API.

I hope that helps.

metze

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