Roland Dowdeswell <elric@imrryr.org> writes:

> On 1052934412 seconds since the Beginning of the UNIX epoch
> Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>>
>>	krb5 support for ssh2 is committed to openssh main tree (usr.bin/ssh
>>	in openbsd).  if anyone cares, i can bring the portion in.  let me know
>
> Thanks for adding this.  Speaking of which there appears to be some
> patches that add GSSAPI support to OpenSSH in a much better way.  Why
> don't we consider adding these?
>
> http://www.sxw.org.uk/computing/patches/openssh.html

One good reason is mentioned by Damien Miller here:
http://www.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2003-May/018257.html

Following that thread would probably be fruitful if you want to
decide on which direction you want to go.