RE: Compiling OpenLDAP 2.0.27 with GSSAPI Support

["Howard Chu" <hyc@highlandsun.com>]

To use GSSAPI you only need to compile Cyrus-SASL with Kerberos support.
OpenLDAP using SASL/GSSAPI doesn't need to know anything about Kerberos, just
SASL.

  -- Howard Chu
  Chief Architect, Symas Corp.       Director, Highland Sun
  http://www.symas.com               http://highlandsun.com/hyc
  Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org
> [mailto:owner-openldap-software@OpenLDAP.org]On Behalf Of Dieter Kluenter

> Hi,

> stefan.rothenbuehler@vzug.ch writes:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > Anybody knows how to compile OpenLDAP with Cyrus-SASL
> > support, so that it supports GSSAPI?
> > Do I have to to a special build of Cyrus-SASL or Kerberos?
> > I'm working on a AIX 5.1 machine and don't get that "GSSAPI" Method
> > working.
> > The error that ldapsearch gives me is:
> > ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Unknown authentication method
>
> You have to compile cyrus-sasl and openldap with lib_krb5 and other
> kerberos related libs.