I tried to build kermit from source on fedora 9, and got a bunch of link errors when I built with kerberos support turned on. Here's a bit of correspondence from the kermit guru, Frank da Cruz:
I tried the linux+krb5+openssl+zlib+shadow+pam, but I get the impression that whatever is in the krb5 libs on fedora 9 isn't what the source expects. Lots of link errors (though it compiles OK), and I couldn't find any of the undefined symbols in any libraries I poked around it (but didn't do an exhaustive search):
Here's what my expert said:
Looks like Fedora 9 removed all DES support. That will effectively kill off kerberized telnet and rlogin.
Sigh. Maybe you could send them some feedback and see what they say.
Have I merely failed to install and/or link with some library? Or has DES been utterly ripped out by fanatical lawyers? Or something else? Anyone on the fedora list know what going on here?