On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Jeffrey Altman wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> If it's plink (and I'm not saying it isn't), then why does plink work >> fine on Vista using KfW 3.1.0? It's only Vista using KfW 3.2.2 that >> triggers the problem. In other words, what's different between 3.1.0 >> and 3.2.2 that triggers the problem... and only on Vista? > > Its not Vista. Its KFW 3.1 vs 3.2.
So how come 3.2 works fine with my existing plink on XP? Sorry, not trying to be difficult, I just need to be able to clarify (to my management) why we only see this on Vista and what it will take to fix it. > The GSSAPI implementation was replaced between those releases. In 3.1 a > single mechanism GSSAPI implementation was included. In 3.2 a > multi-mechanism implementation is included. In 3.1 the GSSAPI could > refuse to deallocate memory that wasn't allocated by the mechanism. In > 3.2 the GSSAPI does not. > > plink/putty has a bug. I know it has a bug because the bug was fixed a > long time ago. the bug was masked by KFW 3.1 and is not masked by 3.2. OK. I wasn't trying to dispute the possibility of a bug in plink/putty... I was just looking for a more detailed explanation. Thanks for providing it. But I still would like to see a reason for why 3.2 works on XP if you know. > Please get a new putty. Unfortunately, since the GSSAPI patch I have is for 0.58, I'll need to do quite a bit of work to get it into 0.60 (the latest version of PuTTY). Since this problem only seems to occur with KfW 3.2.2, I need to weight the advantages of upgrading to 3.2.2 vs the time it will take to adapt my patch to PuTTY 0.60 and test. ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
