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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kerberos, virtuals, rattling cages
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:48:43
Message-Id: CA+czFiDGrM78wT38D_YKvpr7JrVWxW4BJ6JOBTE-WSsEDtSpFg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] kerberos, virtuals, rattling cages by Matthew Thode
1 On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 2:21 AM, Matthew Thode
2 <prometheanfire@g.o> wrote:
3 > On 02/24/13 20:25, Michael Mol wrote:
4 >> (I really don't have time to actively participate on this list right
5 >> now, but I believe that if I bring it up on b.g.o, I'll be directed
6 >> here, so...)
7 >>
8 >> So I'm playing with net-fs/samba-4.0.3, AD and kerberos, and tried to
9 >> enable kerberos system-wide on my server.
10 >>
11 >> No joy, as net-fs/nfs-utils has an explicit dependency on
12 >> app-crypt/mit-krb5 (bug 231936) and net-fs/samba-4.0.3 depends on
13 >> app-crypt/heimdal (for reasons noted in bug 195703, comment 25).
14 >>
15 >> Questions:
16 >>
17 >> 1) If upstream isn't going to support mit-krb5, then use of samba-4.0.3
18 >> and kerberos demands that things with explicit dependencies on mit-krb5
19 >> either be fixed or not used at all.
20 >>
21 >> I'm the first activity on bug 231936 in two years...could someone please
22 >> look into that one?
23 >>
24 >> 2) Is it possible to slot mit-krb5 and heimdal instead of pulling them
25 >> through a virtual? My suspicion is "no", but I don't know enough about
26 >> kerberos to say whether or not it would work, even as a hack.
27 >>
28 >> I'm sure explicit dependencies on mit-krb5 and heimdal will continue to
29 >> crop up, so (and forgive the nausea this might cause) it might help to
30 >> slot mit and heimdal, and have virtual/krb5 depend on the presence of at
31 >> least one.
32 >>
33 > so, read the thread so far, and I think you are over-complicating things
34 > with slotting. I use kerberos at home (more or less just to learn it,
35 > worksforme, etc). I chose MIT. From what I understand MIT and heimdal
36 > are mutually exclusive (can not operate with eachother) and that heimdal
37 > is what windows uses.
38
39 I think they're effectively the same on the wire, but I'm not sure.
40 I'm studying the issue.
41
42 >
43 > What this seems to be is a simple case of blockers. So, the quesiton
44 > is, are you going to be using kerberos in nfs? if not, masking the flag
45 > may be what works for you (in the short term at least). Longer term it
46 > sounds like maybe seperate use flags are in order (or something, dunno).
47
48 It's the longer-term thing is what I'm interested in solving...and
49 smoothness of kerberos in Gentoo in general. SSO for a family network
50 would be very, very nice.
51
52 >
53 > I don't think samba will support MIT, since it's kinda windows focused.
54 >
55 > On another note, I can't find bug 231936.
56
57 Typo. Or dyslexia. Who know...
58
59 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231396
60
61 --
62 :wq

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