[LON-CAPA-dev] IMPORTANT: Need to install kerberos 5

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,

While this is still being worked on, it is important to note that lond will now die a very quiet
death if Authen::Krb5 is not installed on your machine. All you will see is that your box does
not connect anywhere, no error messages.

* Get Authen::Krb5 from CPAN in your favorite way
* the Makefile.PL is broken. Change "/usr/local/krb5/" to "/usr/kerberos/"

Then run make, make install and stuff. Of course, we do not bother to tell you this in any way,
because we do want you to fail and get frustrated.

- Gerd.

Scott Harrison wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> LON-CAPA currently supports kerberos version 4, not kerberos version 5.
> For more information, see BUG #663 which describes the probable fixes.
>
> In fact, if you try the suggested patches
> at http://bugs.lon-capa.org/show_bug.cgi?id=663
>
> you could probably get it to work (before we thoroughly go after it).
>
> LON-CAPA should be made to support Kerberos version 5.
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>
> > Hi-
> >
> >       I have successfully configured one of my machines to authenticate
> > kerberos via krb5 and kinit. It will not yet authenticate with loncapa.
> > Does the loncapa kerberos assume that the server is willing to serve up
> > krb4? I'm currently checking with our local types to see if there is
> > backward compatibility in their implementation. Are there any plans to
> > implement krb5 in loncapa?
> >
> >                                       Thanks!
> >                                          Mark
> >
> >
> >
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