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Re: Sun SEAM Kerberos libraries and includes

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn Barry)
Tue Jun 12 16:12:04 2001

To: mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: Glenn Barry <gtb@Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 12 Jun 2001 13:11:07 -0700
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mark@mcs.vuw.ac.nz (Mark Davies) writes:

> Hi,
>    OK so Sol 2.8 "supports" kerberos.  kinit, kpasswd et al are in the standard
> system and after hunting around I found where the kerberised
> telnet/ftp/rsh etc could be found but am I missing something obvious
> because I couldn't find the headers and libraries to allow you to
> compile your own kerberised apps.  I gave up in the end and just
> compiled and installed heimdal but I've got curious again so does
> anyone know?
> 
> cheers
> mark

Correct, Solaris 8 does not support the krb5 API directly and thus the
header files are not shipped.  Solaris 8 does support krb5 as a
GSS-API mechanism (/usr/lib/gss).  And the GSS-API is a public
interface (libs, include files, doc, etc) in Solaris 8 (or one
of the update releases for 8).





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