[Samba] Is the samba-dc package on Centos 7 gimped?

Nico Kadel-Garcia nkadel at gmail.com
Sun Oct 19 09:08:53 MDT 2014


On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 3:51 AM, Rowland Penny
<rowlandpenny at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 19/10/14 00:06, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:

>> I can expect RHEL to do that for me in new OS releases, it's part of
>> what I pay money for, and sharing the expertise in a bundled set for
>> others is part of what I appreciate from the open source and freeware
>> worlds.
>
> So you are going to rely on red hat coming up with a working samba DC
> package, good luck with that and I hope you are prepared to be patient.
> Samba 4 was released nearly 2 years ago and red hat still hasn't got a
> working package, why ? because they insist it must work with mit instead of
> heimdal, it probably would have been quicker for red hat to drop mit.
>
> Rowland

MIT Kerberos was, and remains, the reference Kerberos stack, so the
reluctance to migrate from it is understandable. And yes, I see some
development reports on Red Hat and Fedora getting this striaghtened
out in the foreseeable future.


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