Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] kerberos

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Quoting Bruce Smith <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.

Go through the archives, there was a reason why we did it this way.


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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org


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