Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:48:35 -0700 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Heimdal vs MIT KerberosV Message-ID: <ade45ae90902260948s1a74ca80qbcfdbc5a1c4949e@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello, Experts.. MIT and I are both located in the US -- so the export law from the US/to the US isn't applicable. I can understand why the included KerberosV implementation is the one from Sweeden, due to these export laws. I know there's a knob (WITHOUT_KERBEROS) to exclude it from the base system, but how can I replace the Sweeden-based Heimdal implementation in favor of the MIT implementation. This isn't expected to be a long drawn out process, one that takes world hacking to work. It'd be just as easy for me to build MIT krb5 from ports and let it install into /usr/local. That's fine -- but I wanted to stretch my knowledge on FreeBSD and the building process and would like to know what it would take to drop in MIT in exchange for Heimdal. I'd guess a couple possible ways to do it, but I wanted to ask the experts before I broke FreeBSD. :) Options as I see them: 1) Take the port directory and replace the contents of /usr/src/kerberos5 with security/krb5 from ports 2) Take the tarball from MIT and drop it into /usr/src/kerberos5 If anything were to work, I'd expect #1 to. So what is the expert's opinion, is it really this easy? Thanks, everyone. Appreciate your time and input. --Tim
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