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Date:      Mon, 5 Feb 2024 08:17:00 +0100
From:      Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com>
To:        Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>, "\"Piotr P. Stefaniak\"" <pstef@freebsd.org>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?"Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav"?= <des@freebsd.org>, Minsoo Choo <minsoochoo0122@proton.me>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Importing Heimdal 7.8.0
Message-ID:  <20240205081700.d0030024eb83f7ccbfd72b3e@bidouilliste.com>
In-Reply-To: <74FEC455-1390-4759-9095-47B9EBA95A31@freebsd.org>
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On Mon, 05 Feb 2024 14:20:34 +0800
Philip Paeps <philip@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 2024-02-04 14:54:58 (+0800), Emmanuel Vadot wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 10:24:09 -0800
> > Enji Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> On Feb 3, 2024, at 09:45, Piotr P. Stefaniak <pstef@freebsd.org>=20
> >>> wrote:
> >>> ?On 2024-01-31 15:31:38, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> >>>> Minsoo Choo <minsoochoo0122@proton.me> writes:
> >>>>> I'm currently working on importing the latest version of Heimdal,
> >>>>
> >>>> Please don't.
> >>>
> >>> why
> >>
> >> Cy is importing MIT kerberos. MIT is (in many cases) the defacto=20
> >> flavor of kerberos.
> >> Cheers,
> >
> >  Is changing kerberos flavor in 2024 really what we want ?
>=20
> We should ship a supported / maintained flavour of Kerberos.  MIT is the=
=20
> best option.
>=20
> > People who are using base kdc will likekly migrate to ports version of
> > heimdal as database isn't compatible (unless something has changed in
> > the past 15 years I've used kerberos).
>=20
> That's certainly true.
>=20
> > I guess that kerberos is still used a bit at some Colleges or old
> > corporation that haven't moved from it but is it relevant for us to
> > still include kerberos in base ?
>=20
> The kdc is only one component of Kerberos.  While using Kerberos alone=20
> is certainly increasingly niche, many organisations use it in=20
> combination with LDAP (e.g. Microsoft Active Directory).
>=20
> We need the Kerberos libraries in the base system for GSSAPI.  It's more=
=20
> effort not to include the kdc and the utilities (kinit, kadmin,=20
> ktutil,...) than including them.

 Is there a written proposal for this switch ?
 I can't seems to understand how it's useful to not include the
utilities in base (I understand for kdc).
 If I need kerberos to login in my env I would need to pkg install
heimdal/mit so I might as well pkg install openssh-portable && pkg
delete FreeBSD-openssh so I have a kerberos aware ssh.
 Please be aware that we're pushing pkgbase use so we will have a lot
more flexibility to have a tool installed or not.

> > OpenSSH-portable/curl and anything else in ports could be moved to use
> > MIT/Heimdal from ports (based on some options and/or subpackages if
> > that is possible).
>=20
> OpenSSH in base still needs to support GSSAPI.
>=20
> Philip
>=20


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Emmanuel Vadot <manu@bidouilliste.com> <manu@freebsd.org>



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