krb5

Install command:
brew install krb5

Network authentication protocol

https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/

License: BSD-2-Clause AND BSD-2-Clause-first-lines AND BSD-3-Clause AND BSD-4-Clause AND Brian-Gladman-2-Clause AND CMU-Mach-nodoc AND FSFULLRWD AND HPND AND HPND-export2-US AND HPND-export-US AND HPND-export-US-acknowledgement AND HPND-export-US-modify AND ISC AND MIT AND MIT-CMU AND OLDAP-2.8 AND OpenVision AND (BSD-2-Clause OR GPL-2.0-or-later)

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/krb5.json

Formula code: krb5.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 1.22.3

Keg-only because macOS already provides this software.

Depends on:

openssl@4 4.1.0 Cryptography and SSL/TLS Toolkit

Uses from macOS: bison (build)

Binaries: compile_et, gss-client, gss-server, k5srvutil, kadmin, kadmin.local, kadmind, kdb5_util, kdestroy, kinit, klist, kpasswd, kprop, kpropd, kproplog, krb5-config, krb5-send-pr, krb5kdc, ksu, kswitch, ktutil, kvno, sclient, sim_client, sim_server, sserver, uuclient, uuserver

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