Re: August 2025 stabilization week

From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander_at_Leidinger.net>
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:32:58 UTC
Am 2025-08-26 06:25, schrieb Rick Macklem:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 1:27 PM Rick Macklem <rick.macklem@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2025 at 9:09 AM Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:

>> >  There is no yet an official way to migrate kdc
>> > > from Heimdal to MIT.
>> Yea. One possibility is to install Heimdal-7.8 from ports/packages and 
>> then
>> use it to dump the KDC's database in MIT format. (Although Cy seemed 
>> to
>> find it didn't work, doing this with the "--decrypt" option might 
>> retain the
>> passwords.)
>> 
>> I'll give this a try and report back if it worked for me.
> Well, I'm not having any luck.
> Every time I try and use Heimdal-7.8 to load the database from 
> Heimdal-1.5.2,
> "kadmin -l" throws this error and exits.
> 
> kadmin: rc4 8: EVP_CipherInit_ex einit
> 
> I need the Heimdal-7.8 kadmin to work to try and convert the database 
> to
> MIT format.
> 
> So, does anyone know the trick to fixing this? rick

I migrated a while ago... don't remember if this year or last year. And 
I don't have my notes about this anymore. But I exported everything from 
base-heimdal and imported into MIT.
A quick google gave mit this: 
https://serverfault.com/questions/1000332/migrating-from-heimdal-to-mit-kerberos
This can be done with the base-heimdal + ports-heimdal + mit-krb.

Bye,
Alexander.

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