Since Fedora is not aimed at enterpise/business ..

Elliot Lee sopwith at redhat.com
Wed Oct 1 14:23:32 UTC 2003


On 1 Oct 2003, Bill Anderson wrote:

> Does this mean we can now stop requiring kerberos in everything that can
> have it required? I submit that the vast majority of Fedora target
> "market"will not ever need krb in Fedora. Can we please make this
> change? In the past the answer has always been "well enterprises and
> medium sized businesses may need it". Well, they can buy RHEL now.
> 
> Please let Fedora Core return to the non
> massive-network-might-need-any-and-all-auth-options-so-we-build-them-all-in
> days.

It's important for Fedora to be a technically featureful OS, and it's not
clear why it's important to avoid Kerberos dependencies.

Being able to do secure network-wide single sign-on is a cool feature!
-- Elliot
Individualists, unite!






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