Hi, I was wondering why (MIT) Kerberos is not an official cygwin package? There are many cons for it:
1) Kerberos is very useful to many people (e.g. MIT, Stanford, government agencies, large companies). It looks like it is becoming even more popular with Microsoft and the major Linux distributions incorporating it. 2) Not having krb5 incapacitates all cygwin packages that would otherwise support it (such as OpenSSH, PostgreSQL). The number of such packages is bound to grow as more and more applications support it. 3) It looks like there are at least 3 binary sets of various versions of krb5 available online ( http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/testing/release/krb5/, and http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/~cplager/kerberos.html, and http://www-clued0.fnal.gov/~axel/files/). By making this a package, at least 3 people will save time. :) 4) Since MIT's Kerberos for Windows can cache tickets to a file, I was able to have a cygwin-compiled krb5 and the GUI Windows apps from KfW interface perfectly! For example, I can get a ticket with a GUI app, and then destroy it with kdestroy. 5) There are no licensing issues. ;) Sincerely, Dan -- 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/
