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#1 2011-05-07 01:18:07
- taylorchu
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moving from heimdal to krb5, but why?
I saw the mailing talking about moving from heimdal to krb5.
Is there going to any difference? is krb5 better? if so, why?
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#2 2011-05-07 02:20:00
- ataraxia
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Re: moving from heimdal to krb5, but why?
I think heimdal isn't much maintained upstream these days, but MIT krb5 is. It's unfortunate, since heimdal was always the one with the features. In the current situation, I agree with the move.
It's also nice that more software supports MIT's API than heimdal's.
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#3 2011-05-07 02:38:41
- Allan
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Re: moving from heimdal to krb5, but why?
The talk on the mailing list did describe why...
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#4 2011-05-13 08:41:28
- giddie
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Re: moving from heimdal to krb5, but why?
For those that, like me, want to read some of the reasoning behind the change, the best information I could find on this was here:
http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/ … 19845.html
Are there any other posts that help explain the move?
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