From owner-freebsd-current Sun Oct 4 13:12:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA19721 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:12:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA19705; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:12:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07365; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:12:03 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd007344; Sun Oct 4 13:12:01 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA09682; Sun, 4 Oct 1998 13:11:58 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810042011.NAA09682@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Problems with Kerberos and /etc/auth.conf To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1998 20:11:58 +0000 (GMT) Cc: markm@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <7633.907521782@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Oct 4, 98 10:23:02 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > OK, so I'm just going down my sheet of "things that various people > have reported as being most annoying in FreeBSD" and I'm looking at > the 'ol "su -K" FAQ, that being the one where people inadvertently > install kerberos (either by checking too many things off an install > menu or building from sources) and it subsequently bites the > non-internet connected by making su pause for a heck of a long time > trying to contact a kerberos server which doesn't exist. FWIW (which apparently ain't much), the thing I find most annoying is that there are FAQ's at all. If You know why something breaks, instead of writing about it, why not make it Just Work(tm) instead? The fact that there are FAQ's at all implies that FreeBSD is failing POLA at some baser level... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message