Project Review: kinit -C

[Will Fiveash]

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 01:18:20PM -0500, Will Fiveash wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 09:57:27AM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:51:55AM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > > Not surprisingly it does end up being reasonably easy to build two
> > > different versions of kinit.  One gets a stub that prints an error if
> > > you use this option.  One gets the real function.  Still, I'd like to
> > > wait for one of the Os distributors (either now or in the future) to
> > > come forward and say they need that before doing it.
> > 
> > Will has already indicated that he'd rather have kinit.local...  I think
> > he speaks for Oracle in this case.
> 
> Earlier I was just trying to point out that this change will affect
> Solaris packaging which splits binaries into two packages, one for those
> binaries needed by a client/service needing krb auth and one for those
> needed by a KDC.  I did not intend to imply that Oracle disagreed with
> Sam's proposal.  I will bring up this issue with the rest of the Solaris
> krb development team in our weekly meeting tomorrow and reply to this
> thread with the collective opinion.

The Solaris krb dev. team did not have any major objections with your
original proposal to modify kinit and add new dependencies on the libs
mentioned. 

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Will Fiveash
Oracle
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