Debian samba4 package

[Michael Wood]

Hi Steve

On 23 May 2013 08:31, steve <steve at steve-ss.com> wrote:

> 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
>
>
No, you don't need to worry about any of that if you build from source.

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Michael Wood <esiotrot at gmail.com>