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

[Mark Lucas]

Gerd,

	There are two initialization statements in the middle of the code. 
Is this where the quiet death occurs? If so, is there a good way to check 
for the code, or is this just a hiccup while the new CPAN downloading is 
being implemented?

					Mark
 On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, Gerd Kortemeyer wrote:

> 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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Mark Lucas					email: lucasm@ohiou.edu
252D Clippinger Lab  				phone: (740)597-2984
Department of Physics and Astronomy             fax:   (740)593-0433
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701