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krb5

brew install krb5 v1.22.2 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) keg-only

MIT Kerberos: network authentication protocol library and utilities for secure ticket-based authentication.

Why you might care

Required by applications needing Kerberos authentication (LDAP, SSH, databases). Homebrew's version provides newer updates than macOS's bundled Kerberos; keg-only to avoid conflicts. Includes kadmin, kinit, and klist command-line tools for managing Kerberos credentials.

Categories

library networking security authentication

Alternatives

OpenSSH GSSAPI Active Directory
60.9k
30-day installs · #101
222.4k
90-day · #85
936.8k
365-day · #57

Runtime dependencies

openssl@3

Links

Keg-only reason

:provided_by_macos

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