[Samba] Gentoo, Heimdal and Samba 4.2 EOL (was: Re: bug in smbclient (?) 4.2.x)

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 12:26 +1300, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-01-05 at 00:07 +0100, Stefan G. Weichinger via samba
> wrote:
> > 
> > Am 2017-01-04 um 23:49 schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger via samba:
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > on my way to 4.5.3 now
> > 
> > compiling samba-4.5.3 on gentoo *failed* right now
> > 
> > seems to be related to heimdal issues .. it's too late here right
> > now
> > to
> > go on with that, maybe tomorrow.
> > 
> > browsed the gentooo bugzilla, found
> > 
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593486
> > 
> > (and commented)
> > 
> > That seems to be the showstopper at gentoo.
> > 
> > Aside from that: pls remember that they had/have that issue with
> > debian
> > as well.
> 
> In Debian we re-bundled heimdal.  Samba is only known to work and is
> only tested with the bundled copy.  The semi-private interfaces we
> use
> with the KDC have skewed and we rely on specific patches to be
> applied
> on the Heimdal side.
> 
> The work to have Heimdal updated in Samba, so we can then port out
> the
> last few patches and unbundle it remains uncompleted.  The port to
> MIT
> kerberos is ongoing, but also not complete.

For clarity, I speak here regarding the AD DC mode.  The file server
has always supported the system MIT Krb5, and continues to do so as a
fully supported option.

Andrew Bartlett

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