Re: krb5 and KDE
Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
> A Debian user *has* found yet another odd interaction between Kerberos and
> OpenLDAP (I can see Steve groaning already). comp.protocols.kerberos has
> the thread; it's not in the BTS yet, in part because I don't really
> understand what's going on. Kerberos upstream is actively investigating.
[...]
> The thing is, there's code in Kerberos specifically to *keep* it from
> doing this by setting a flag if it initialized without pthreads that's
> supposed to keep it from ever using pthread-related mutexes later. It
> seems that this is not working for some reason for this particular user,
> maybe.
> I'm not sure if this is sufficiently critical to warrant an RC bug, and
> in fact I'm not even sure where the bug is yet, although it's looking
> more and more like it's in the Kerberos libraries.
Sam and Ken have now found and fixed this problem and Sam has uploaded a
new version of krb5 with this bug fixed (and with high urgency), so now we
should be all clear to let krb5 migrate.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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