curl/docs/libcurl/opts/CURLOPT_KRBLEVEL.md
Daniel Stenberg 5ab120bc4e
krb5: drop support for Kerberos FTP
It was accidentally broken in commit 0f4c439fc7, shipped since
8.8.0 (May 2024) and yet not a single person has noticed or reported,
indicating that we might as well drop support for FTP Kerberos.

Krb5 support was added in 54967d2a3a (July 2007), and we have
been carrying the extra license information around since then for this
code. This commit removes the last traces of that code and thus we can
remove the extra copyright notices along with it.

Reported-by: Joshua Rogers
Closes #18577
2025-09-20 23:58:28 +02:00

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---
c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
Title: CURLOPT_KRBLEVEL
Section: 3
Source: libcurl
See-also:
- CURLOPT_USE_SSL (3)
Protocol:
- FTP
Added-in: 7.16.4
---
# NAME
CURLOPT_KRBLEVEL - FTP kerberos security level
# SYNOPSIS
~~~c
#include <curl/curl.h>
CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_KRBLEVEL, char *level);
~~~
# DESCRIPTION
Deprecated. It serves no purpose anymore.
Pass a char pointer as parameter. Set the kerberos security level for FTP;
this also enables kerberos awareness. This is a string that should match one
of the following: `clear`, `safe`, `confidential` or `private`. If the string
is set but does not match one of these, `private` is used. Set the string to
NULL to disable kerberos support for FTP.
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
option.
The application does not have to keep the string around after setting this
option.
# DEFAULT
NULL
# %PROTOCOLS%
# EXAMPLE
~~~c
int main(void)
{
CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
if(curl) {
CURLcode res;
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "ftp://example.com/foo.bin");
curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_KRBLEVEL, "private");
res = curl_easy_perform(curl);
curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
}
}
~~~
# HISTORY
Functionality removed in 8.17.0
This option was known as CURLOPT_KRB4LEVEL up to 7.16.3
# DEPRECATED
Deprecated since 8.17.0
# %AVAILABILITY%
# RETURN VALUE
curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.
CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see
libcurl-errors(3).