Project Review: kinit -C

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Tue Sep 14 14:54:35 EDT 2010


>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Yu <tlyu at MIT.EDU> writes:

    Tom> Sam Hartman <hartmans at MIT.EDU> writes:
    >> As a result, kinit will link against libkdb5 and libkadm5srv.

    Tom> I would prefer that this be a build-time option, so that
    Tom> software packagers have more flexibility about whether the
    Tom> kinit binary needs to have the KDC libraries installed.
    Tom> Alternatively, build two versions, kinit and kinit.local, only
    Tom> the latter of which depends on the KDC libraries.

I'd like to push back on this and ask for someone to step forward and
say that's a problem for their packaging first before we make the
change.



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