Debugging KFM on Mac OSX 10.3

Booker Bense bbense at slac.stanford.edu
Mon Apr 26 15:06:02 EDT 2004


On Mon, 26 Apr 2004, Sam Hartman wrote:

> >>>>> "Booker" == Booker Bense <bbense at slac.stanford.edu> writes:
>
>     Booker> _ Ideally, I'd like to build and run KfM under a debugger
>     Booker> to find out exactly what is happening. Is there a recipe
>     Booker> for doing this somewhere? I haven't had much luck building
>     Booker> either the Darwin src from Apple or krb5-1.3.3 on OSX
>     Booker> 10.3.
>
> You should be able to build krb5 1.3.3 on OSX 10.3 simply by typing
> configure followed by make.  Actually, you may need to set LDFLAGS to
> include a flag to link against the local copies of libraries rather
> than the symlinks in /usr/lib.  I know Alexis has described this
> before and I know it is an obvious hit on Google.
>

_ It turns out the bug is not just in OSX, but happens on linux
as well. The code for afs_string_to_key in heimdal and MIT do not
generate the same key for passwords > 8 chars. I haven't figured
out why that is yet.

_ Booker C. Bense


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