Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 19:50:04 -0700 (PDT) From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/43774: Allow users to build security/cyrus_sasl without Kerberos IV support Message-ID: <200210080250.g982o4eR027985@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/43774; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "Scot W. Hetzel" <hetzels@westbend.net>
To: "Guido Berhoerster" <ich@guido-berhoerster.org>,
<FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:
Subject: Re: ports/43774: Allow users to build security/cyrus_sasl without Kerberos IV support
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 21:41:10 -0500
From: "Guido Berhoerster" <ich@guido-berhoerster.org>
> >Description:
> The security/cyrus_sasl port automatically activates Kerberos IV support
if
> /usr/lib/libkrb.a is found on the system. Users might have Kerberos IV
> installed but don't want Cyrus SASL to support it e.g. because they only
use
> it with sendmail to authenticate themselves with a different method.
> Once Kerberos support is compiled in via --enable-krb4 it cannot be
disabled
> later. And if Kerberos is not configured and there is no /etc/srvtab
sendmail
> produces annoying error messages until a dummy file with that name is
created.
>
There's another way to silence the error message:
mkdir /usr/local/lib/sasl/disable
cd /usr/local/lib/sasl
mv libkerberos4.* disable
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Build the security/cyrus_sasl port on a system which has Kerberos IV
installed.
>
> >Fix:
> Add a simple switch like WITHOUT_KRB4 to the Makefile and thus allow users
to
> turn off Kerberos support even if they have Kerberos installed, e.g. like
this:
>
I have no objection to having this switch added.
Scot W. Hetzel
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