Lion problems

Tom Yu tlyu at MIT.EDU
Thu Mar 15 10:16:07 EDT 2012


Jaap Winius <jwinius at umrk.nl> writes:

> Quoting Simon Wilkinson <simon at sxw.org.uk>:
>
>> Lion uses a Heimdal based Kerberos, rather than a MIT one. Whilst it
>> does provide a shim layer to support the MIT API, the shim is far
>> from complete. Many of the functions are just stubbed out, and return
>> error codes.
>
> Right, that explains things. I hope the MIT Kerberos developers are  
> planning to address this issue in the not too distant future, but in  
> the mean time I have circumvented the problem simply by creating the  
> necessary keytab on a different machine and copying it to the Lion  
> host (also to /etc/). As far as I can tell it works fine now.

How do you suggest that we address this issue in MIT Kerberos?  (What
exactly is the issue?)


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