Project Review: kinit -C

[Russ Allbery]

Sam Hartman <hartmans at MIT.EDU> writes:
>>>>>> "Luke" == Luke Howard <lukeh at padl.com> writes:

>     Luke> Yeah, if we're doing this way I'd prefer to build kinit and
>     Luke> kinit.local. That's consistent with kadmin.  -- Luke

> Right.  It's kadmin.local that makes me want to avoid doing something
> similar.  We certainly can do that if needed. However as a packager I've
> found kadmin vs kadmin.local to be a significantly worse experience than
> adding a couple of extra libraries as dependencies to the package
> containing kinit.

Note, for example, that Heimdal made the opposite decision with kadmin,
and I've certainly found it convenient to be able to just use kadmin -l.
I've never noticed any problems from having the server libraries installed
as well as the client libraries.

kinit, admittedly, is a much more widely used program than kadmin, but I
think I'm with Sam in not seeing a whole lot of trouble with some
additional library links.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>