Entries in Category: Kerberos

Right, so this coming week is finally going to see the results of my frustrations with the kerberi. My apologies to those who have been tuning in with hopes of seeing some movement. I'm sorry, but there simply hasn't been any. The next weekish will finally see some ebb in my schedule. Because the Airport Extreme does not work in linux, I haven't really been able to work from home (yeah, I can use the terminal on my devbox @ ...

No, not the Paul Simon song that the Bangles sung, rather a lament on deadlines. I've an upcoming deadline on Friday for my real life work, so I'm guessing this kerberos stuff will not be finished this week. I hope to at least get some time to start on the stuff. As of right now, I have preliminary ebuilds for relocated heimdal and mit-krb5. Unfortunately, I have not been able to gut either of them of the com_err ...

So let's start off with this: Happy Easter to those who celebrate it. Congrats to Chris, Benni, Tim, and everyone on the releng team for putting out the 2005.0 release. The delay was worth it for sure. Not that I'm Ryan Seacrest or anything, but this was the best liveCD ever. Finally, after being here since 2001, someone criticises me for something. Too bad it was for just one line of posting rather than ...

So it's now Sunday (hence still the weekend, hence no heimdal), and I have nothing better to do than to pimp for a minimac.

And doing a good job of it too, I must say. I only thought of it because I had to write a Title. Anyway, this is the best quote I've seen this week: > When did ANYONE with a clue listen to Microsoft? "Linux costs you more money", "Linux has more security problems" and "IE doesn't have any security holes which we can't fix and do the second we know about them if you have a fucking time ...

Thanks, torkel, for your comment. You're right about krb5-config that both mit- and heimdal provide. That binary (or script) just tells the CFLAGS and/or LDFLAGS that this specific krb5 was compiled with and needs to link to, etc, for programmes building against it. That make any sense? So anyway, as part of the kerberos-config script that I've referred to before (though I might have inadvertantly and VERY VERY wrongly called it krb5-config. Actually, I just checked and I didn't, ...

Owing to Langthang's comment yesterday, I'll start a new list for packages in portage which do not compile against heimdal. They are: * nfs-utils * uw-imap

So, in Kerberos update news, SpankY and vapier have agreed to break out com_err, et, and ss into a separate package. Rather than have three different packages, we decided to go with one since e2fsprogs apparently needs all 3, and the kerberi require at least 2 out of those 3 (not the same 2 either). Additionally, iFlame has been looking into removing the com_err and et stuff from the freebsd-ubin and freebsd-libs packages for the Gentoo/FBSD project. I'm currently investigating ...

So let's talk kerberos for a second. We all know about heimdal and MIT's reference implementation (whatever that means) and so on. In Gentoo, at the moment, the two block each other -- meaning you can not have both installed at once. This causes some problems because if you have a predilection to, say, heimdal, oftentimes portage will ask you to unmerge it so that it can merge mit-krb5 as a dependency for something else. The latest example is [the ...