X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:38:53 +0200 To: "Chris Green" , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: kerberos tools (kinit, etc) and kerberos-aware openssh in cygwin? From: "Matthias Andree" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=iso-8859-15 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <49F72D97.4020300@gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <49F72D97.4020300@gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.64 (Win32) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Am 28.04.2009, 18:23 Uhr, schrieb Chris Green : > 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 . 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/