Now that the os_context is directly part of the krb5_context structure - (as opposed to a pointer to the os_context), there appears to be a memory leak in the serailizer library... lib/krb5/ser_ctx.c: krb5_context_internalize allocates memory for the krb5_context structure. About line 175, krb5_internalize_opaque called with a pointer to the os_context structure in the krb5_context. This then gets to krb5_oscontext_internalize - which allocates the memory for the krb5_os_context. This pointer is then stored in the pointer passed in from krb5_context_internalize.... Hmm - on second thought - this is simply wrong... It is overwriting the structure with a pointer - so the code is even more broken.... Anyways - krb5_context_internalize should pass a pointer to a krb5_os_context *, and then copy the data back into the krb5_context... Ezra