FYI. The CyberSafe GSSAPI library is fully threadsafe by design and was not based on any MIT code - it was developed to the RFC specification and designed to be a fully stable and commercially supported library for application security.
Thanks, Tim. -----Original Message----- From: Booker Bense [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 July 2003 23:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: MIT Kerberos: is it Thread-Safe? On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Are you sure Heimdal is thread-safe? Like a month ago I checked with > them and theirs is not thread-safe either. - Rumor has it that while heimdal is not guaranteed to be thread-safe, in practice it works well enough. (i.e. there are a lot of people running large OpenLDAP installations using hiemdal gssapi in a threaded server and they don't have problems. ) > > Kent > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nikola Milutinovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 10:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: MIT Kerberos: is it Thread-Safe? > > > Hi all. > > As the subject says, is MIT Kerberos thread-safe and if it is, which version? > - There is no currently distributed version that is thread-safe. Some people at IBM have done the work to make a thread-safe version of the API, but I don't know if this work is yet available. > OpenLDAP FAQ warns that MIT Kerberos libraries are not thread safe and > that one should either use "--no-threads" when building it or build > with Heimdal implementation. Now, I have gotten quite used to MIT > Kerberos, have built several packages linked with it. It would be a > drag to switch to Heimdal now. - From a programmer's point of view there is not a large difference in the libraries. In general, porting from one to the other is mostly a matter of getting the correct libraries in the compile line. - Booker C. Bense ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
