Debian samba4 package

steve steve at steve-ss.com
Thu May 23 00:31:21 MDT 2013


On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 12:40 +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 19:22 -0700, C.J. Adams-Collier KF7BMP wrote:
> > Wow.  Is there any way to have the package not depend on a specific
> > implementation of kerberos?  I'd prefer to stick to MIT kerberos.
> 
> A few points:
> 
>  - The samba4 package in debian currently is only the AD DC, and as the
> AD DC requires (is built on) Heimdal Kerberos, it depends on the Heimdal
> Kerberos package in Debian.  
> 
>  - On other platforms we use our internal copy of Heimdal for the AD DC
>  
>  - If you build --with-system-mitkrb5 you won't get the AD DC. 
> 
>  - For Samba 4.0 as a file server different distributions have taken
> different compromises here.  Fedora/Red Hat packages won't include the
> AD DC, because they want to use MIT Krb5, while the new Debian packages
> I'm helping the Debian Samba Team work on will include the AD DC as well
> as the file server, and so will use Heimdal from the system.
> 
> I hope this clarifies things,

Hi
Do any of these comments apply if we build from source on openSUSE or
Ubuntu?
Cheers,
Steve




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