Kerberos for OS/2 (and eComStation)

Kerberos is a network authentication protocol designed around the concept of granting tickets to clients, where each ticket is valid for access to certain resources on the server or network. Developed originally at MIT in the 1980's, Kerberos is a mature, stable, standard protocol, used by a variety of different networking technologies, including Samba.

This is the home of the Kerberos for OS/2 project, which encompasses both the MIT implementation and the Heimdal implementation, as used in Samba 4.

Note: If using the NetDrive Samba Plugin for eCS (OS/2) version 3.0 or above with Kerberos authentication, you will need the Heimdal Kerberos implementation and not MIT.

Official Releases

In the tables below the latest GA (General Availability, stable) release is always marked as Bold
If you need a prior version take a look at the history page.

Additional software prerequisites

It is strongly recommended to install from the WPI packages if not using yum/rpm.

kLibc 0.6.6 Library	​WPI	kLibc Runtime libraries required by all Kerberos installations. Do not use them if you have a yum/rpm env.
GCC 4 Core Libraries	​WPI	GCC 4 runtime libraries required by all Kerberos installations. Do not use them if you have a yum/rpm env.

MIT Kerberos based releases

Release date	State	Version	Based upon	Package	Description
TBA	TBA	TBD	​Kerberos 5 Release 1.13	[URL TBA ZIP]	Initial release of MIT Kerberos 5 for OS/2.

Heimdal Kerberos based releases

Release date	State	Version	Based upon	Package	Description
TBA	TBA	TBD	​Heimdal 1.5.2	[URL TBA ZIP]	Initial release of Heimdal Kerberos 5 for OS/2.

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions and Answers

Some useful Kerberos for OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions and Answers are located here.

More Information

• Currently known Kerberos ​issues (open Tickets)
• Kerberos Development ​Progress
• Kerberos links collection
• Kerberos scratchpad

Reporting Bugs

Reporting bugs and requesting new features is done through the ticket system. You may view existing tickets, add comments to existing ones, and create new tickets using the corresponding buttons at the top of every page. If you want to submit a new bug or request a feature, please use the Search function first to make sure there is no ticket for this task already created.
If you have not added your email address to your account profile, you may not be notified of updates to your tickets, so please revisit the ​Feedback analysis as often as possible. If we leave comment and don't get feedback from the ticket creator, we will close the ticket after some time.

In order to create a new ticket or comment on an existing one, you will need to login with your Netlabs login id. If you do not have a login id, you may request one at ​http://www.netlabs.org/en/site/member/member.xml.

Mailinglist

• Coming soon

Credits

• Paul Smedley (aka Smedles), for the current ports and for the early work
• Bart Van Leuwwen, for the early work
• Lewis Rosenthal (aka Lewisr), for testing and project management
• The Samba for eComStation team
• all we missed, and all who will be added individually, in due time