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Re: kerberos tools (kinit, etc) and kerberos-aware openssh in cygwin?


Am 28.04.2009, 18:23 Uhr, schrieb Chris Green <chris.h.green@gmail.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

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Matthias Andree

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