Re: appl/simple/client/sim_client.c uses internal APIs
Simo Sorce <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.general |
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| Organization | Red Hat |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, 2023-02-23 at 10:20 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > The example program uses internal APIs not present in the public header > file (krb5_gen_portaddr, krb5_gen_replay_name; the THIS IS UGLY part). > Are there alternatives part of the public API? > > The issue here is that the example code has leaked outside of krb5 to > other projects, and it only builds there because current compilers still > support implicit function declarations. I would like to give guidance > to the external users, but unfortunately I don't know anything about > Kerberos. Wherever possible you should recommend people use GSSAPI and not krb5 APIs directly, unless they are building tools specifically to manage aspects of krb5 (acquiring tickets, managing ccaches, etc.) Simo. -- Simo Sorce RHEL Crypto Team Red Hat, Inc ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos