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Date: | Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:38:53 +0200 |
To: | "Chris Green" <chris DOT h DOT green AT gmail DOT com>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: kerberos tools (kinit, etc) and kerberos-aware openssh in cygwin? |
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Am 28.04.2009, 18:23 Uhr, schrieb Chris Green <chris DOT h DOT green AT gmail DOT com>: > Hi, > > I have searched through the main mailing list archives and not come up > with anything that seems even partially relevant except perhaps a recent > email regarding LSA which did not seem to address my exact question. Is > it possible for Cygwin to include a kerberos implementation (MIT or > Heimdal, for instance) along with kerberos support compiled into the > main openssh package? Are there any issues here that I'm not aware of? > I've tried to compile the MIT package a couple of times without success > but I don't know how much work it would be to get it going? > > I am aware of several scientists in my field (particle physics research) > who rely on Cygwin and their old method of "getting around" was a > one-off compile of a very old version of ssh that now does not talk to > modern sshd servers properly provided by someone on an as-is basis > several years ago. The currently-packaged openssh would work just fine > if it were compiled with a set of kerberos libraries. > > Any help or suggestions for alternatives or existing documentation > gratefully received. Hi Chris, the best alternative I'm aware of and I have been using successfully for some weeks now (to the extent possible in PuTTY, which has some rough edges in Unicode and screen line drawing support) is a patched PuTTY snapshot with MIT Kerberos support, courteously provided by Matthew Loar. For details, please see <http://matthew.loar.name/software/putty/>. HTH -- Matthias Andree -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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