Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] kerberos

[Bruce S. <bw...@re...>]

>> I'm trying to join a DL 1.3 box to an AD domain for the first time and
>> my first impression was DL doesn't contain kerberos since none of the
>> commands are in the default $PATH.  Then I found that the binaries are
>> in /usr/bin/krb5/ and /usr/sbin/krb5/.
>>
>> On Ubuntu and CentOS (and probably others), the kerberos binaries
>> reside in /usr/[s]bin/.  Why does DL have them in their own
>> directories?
>>
>> Is it because a few kerberos'ied binaries conflict with their regular
>> counterparts (ftp, telnet, rcp, rlogin, rsh)?.  Should we move (or
>> link?) the rest of the krb5 binaries into the regular /usr/[s]bin/
>> PATH?
>
> Yes you're correct, back when we added it, the krb5 files caused some
> conflicts since they overwrote other binaries.
> We could try your suggestion.

Is there any reason not to allow krb5 to just overwrite the binaries?

The krb5 version of the binaries should do everything the regular
binaries do, plus kerberos authentication.

 - BS