Bug 1874 – Failure when opening an SFTP/SCP connection when an old version of MIT Kerberos for Windows is installed

Component: Core

Version: 5.16 beta

OS: Unspecified

Severity: Bug

Priority: Medium

Implemented/Fixed in: 5.17.6

Resolution: FIXED

Status: RESOLVED

Votes: 0

Description
2020-05-26 11:13

https://winscp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28956

Comment #1
2020-05-26 11:13

Emails with Joseph Moore.

Comment #2
2020-05-26 11:42

Caused by this change:
https://git.tartarus.org/?p=simon/putty.git;a=commitdiff;h=d515e4f1a34b4122195b113ba42ad1c4d2de9085
Though the change is present in WinSCP since 5.16, and the failure was not reported until 5.17.1, with one report explicitly mentioning that 5.16 does not have the problem:
https://winscp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28956#99867

Comment #3
2020-05-26 11:43

Emails with Roberto Pellagatti

Comment #4
2020-05-26 11:44

The problem does not occur with MIT Kerberos for Windows 4.1.
https://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dist/#kfw-4.1
All reports so far were for 4.0.1.

Comment #5
2020-05-26 11:52

Emails with Alexander.

Comment #6
2020-05-27 14:05

See Bug 1863

Comment #7
2020-05-28 07:39

https://github.com/winscp/winscp/commit/dceed175a8cf8c726b91adbcce6afa1bb8596fd6
https://github.com/winscp/winscp/commit/06fc5873599a1ba3e57c92e00d5582f2e182073b

Comment #8
2020-05-28 07:39

Fixed.

Comment #9
2020-06-02 08:47

Emails with Gabriel Moura.

Comment #10
2020-06-26 08:39

Possibly related:
https://winscp.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=23468#100552