Re: Bug#315059: Drop KRB4 support from HEIMDAL
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 12:18 +1000, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Steve" == Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@stuntcomputing.com> writes:
>
> Steve> On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 03:20:08PM -0400, Sam Hartman
> Steve> wrote:
> >> Does the krb524 functionality disappear from the KDC if you
> >> turn off krb4?
>
> Steve> According to upstream, krb524 works without krb4 in heimdal
> Steve> 0.7; nothing was said about heimdal 0.6.3 which we
> Steve> currently have in unstable, but I imagine we'd need to move
> Steve> to the new version.
>
> It looks like totally removing krb4 support would mean conflicting
> with kerberos4kth, due to conflicts between shared libraries used.
>
> Does this matter?
>
> Is it time to think about removing kerberos4kth from the archive
> anyway?
In my opinion yes. However an easy and well documented upgrade-path from
a krb4 KDC to a krb5 KDC is probably necessary.
/torkel
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