[MS-BKRP] backupkey server and GnuTLS

Stefan Metzmacher metze at samba.org
Wed Dec 2 21:24:50 UTC 2015


Hi Andreas,

>> That was mostly what I was expecting. Well the configure identifies that
>> my system is missing the package, although a better error message could
>> be nice. Some of the others like ldap, suggest some packages to install.
>> I would suggest rearranging the code so that the conf.fatal is triggered
>> and make sure to include the minimum version in that user message.
> 
> Well, the question is if we want to require GnuTLS 3.2 or not.
> 
> Can you test if only the changes to the torture test work on your machine?
> 
>>
>> However, libcups2-dev appears to rely on libgnutls-dev and installing
>> libgnutls28-dev removes it (and reinstalling libcups2-dev will remove
>> libgnutls28-dev).
>>
>> I also originally thought gnutls_x509_privkey_import_rsa_raw2 was
>> usable, but there was an odd linkage error. That might be on my end but
>> it's not really important if the requirement is higher.
>>
>> I presume the question will be supporting Centos 6, and regarding
>> impact, this would probably have to be fielded to others.
> 
> The option I see is that we are looking for GnuTLS 3.4.7, if present we build 
> 
> dcesrv_backupkey_gnutls.c
> 
> if not and we do a heimdal build, we build the old code which we rename to:
> 
> dcesrv_backupkey_heimdal.c

I'd prefer this option.

metze

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