[Samba] Heimdal or MIT kerberos comparison

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 16:28 -0600, James A. Dinkel wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrew Bartlett
> > Sent: Saturday, December 23, 2006 3:42 PM
> > 
> > The biggest thing users will notice is that the error message system
> > returns contextual errors, with the actual reason for the failure, not
> > just the translated code.  It often includes the vital clues that help
> > fix up the inevitable kerberos issues.
> > 
> > I've use Heimdal in Samba4, particularly because of the close working
> > relationship I have with it's primary maintainer.
> > 
> > Andrew Bartlett
> 
> Is this "close working relationship" true of the entire Samba team (or
> at least of anyone involved in coding anything related to Kerberos)?

It's a Samba4 thing, because we bundle kerberos in the distribution. 

> Samba's "Authentication Developer"'s preference of Heimdal over MIT is
> good enough for me, but I would like to put some accurate information in
> the wiki, as it pertains to Samba users.  I went ahead and added a blurb
> to this page: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_%26_Kerberos since
> this is the only feedback I've gotten thus far.

Almost all users will use the system kerberos libraries, whatever they
are.  They tend to be difficult to replace.

Andrew Bartlett

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Andrew Bartlett                                http://samba.org/~abartlet/
Authentication Developer, Samba Team           http://samba.org
Samba Developer, Red Hat Inc.                  http://redhat.com
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