Heimdal vs MIT KerberosV
Tim Judd
tajudd at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 09:48:36 PST 2009
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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