[Samba] Red Hat Implementation of Samba 4???

[Rowland Penny]

On 27/10/14 03:19, Matthieu Patou wrote:
> On 10/25/2014 03:27 PM, Greg Zartman wrote:
>> Does anyone know what Red Hat/Centos is going with Samba 4?  I've 
>> looked at
>> their packages in COS 6.5 and 7 and it doesn't make sense.  They 
>> seems to
>> be doing some kind of watered down or modified version of Samba 4 
>> with some
>> of the tools disabled.
>>
>> Are they still holding off from full AD implementation in their packages
>> because of the MIT Kerberos issues identified in previous discussions?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
> Redhat has only a client and file server in RHEL 7.0, has they are 
> using MIT kerberos pretty much everywhere they decided that using 
> heimdal would be problematic.
>
> I guess this should change, we see lot of moves in order to have MIT 
> kerberos as the kdc for SambaAD.
>
> Matthieu.
>
Well, there may indeed be 'lots of moves in order to have MIT', but they 
seem to be snail like, I found this:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=296121

Which seems to be discussing the same thing, nearly 12 months ago.

Rowland