In article <20010303100412.J1784@dr-evil.shagadelic.org>,
Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com> wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 12:28:50PM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
>
> > It seems Kerberos 5 support is broken with ssh as well.. would it be
> > beneficial to have a compatibility layer (libkrb5_compat_mit or something)
> > to implement the MIT API?
>
>For a lot of things, the differences are minor.  For other things,
>applications use functions that technically were internal MIT routines
>(not really part of the API), but which unfortunately were prototyped
>in headers that applications included (so, hey, they used the routines).
>

The major problem is that a lot of structure fields are named differently
in heimdal, and exposed to user programs. I think that it would make the
world a better place if heimdal stopped suffering from NIH and followed
the MIT naming structures.

christos