Uninstalling Kerberos

[Digant Kasundra]

If you decide to play with Heimdal's kerberos, you can run make uninstall, I
believe.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: kerberos-bounces at mit.edu 
> [mailto:kerberos-bounces at mit.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Raeburn
> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2004 1:23 PM
> To: mdj_frend at yahoo.com
> Cc: kerberos at mit.edu; Ken Raeburn
> Subject: Re: Uninstalling Kerberos
> 
> 
> On Thursday, Apr 22, 2004, at 08:37 US/Eastern, mdj_kerberos wrote:
> 
> > Hi Group,
> >
> >    I want to try installation of kerberos on a linux 
> machine. As I can 
> > see a lot of documentation is available for installation. 
> But my aim 
> > is to play with kerberos for some days and then remove it from the 
> > linux machine. So will you please asssit me in how to go about 
> > uninstalling kerberos because no where i am finding the concerned 
> > guide lines.
> >
> 
> Shouldn't be too hard.
> 
> If you're installing packages provided by your Linux 
> distribution, keep 
> track of which ones they are, along with any packages you have to 
> uninstall because of conflicts (e.g., you install the 
> Kerberos-version-of-foo package and it conflicts with the foo package 
> so you uninstall that).  That should let you delete the new packages 
> and reinstall the old ones.
> 
> If you're building from sources, install into a place where you don't 
> have any other software (e.g., configure with --prefix=/usr/krb5) and 
> delete the entire tree and /etc/krb5.conf when you're done 
> playing with 
> it.  You may want to tweak inetd.conf a bit to run Kerberos services, 
> just keep a backup.
> 
> The installation of Kerberos from source in some random location, by 
> itself, shouldn't interfere with any system software.  Linux vendor 
> distribution packages are naturally more integrated, but by the same 
> measure, should be easy to uninstall if you just keep track of what 
> you've installed.
> 
> Ken
> 
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