[Freeipa-devel] Heimdal Kerberos support for client

Petr Spacek pspacek at redhat.com
Thu Oct 13 15:56:11 UTC 2016


On 12.10.2016 20:22, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> Petr Spacek wrote:
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I just noticed that client/configure.ac contains some checks to detect and
>> support Heimdal Kerberos libraries.
>>
>> Was it tested? Does it work? Can I drop it? :-)
>>
> 
> Wow, that's some old code.
> 
> Only Simo would know if it was ever tested or ever worked.
> 
> I suppose since theoretically the client can be built separately theoretically
> it might do the right thing in some cases.
> 
> Seems like enough of a corner case to me that I'd remove it, given it is
> likely untested these last 9 years or so.

Simo told me on IRC that we could remove it. According to Alexander, Ubuntu is
building IPA packages against MIT Kerberos so it should be okay.

-- 
Petr^2 Spacek




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