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

[Scott Harrison]

Hi all,

A minor update on making PERL on your system to behave like LEGO BLOCKS.

The process for building self-extracting "binaries" that will cleanly
install/upgrade/uninstall CPAN distribution packages is currently working,
though these self-extracting-installing packages are not yet released.

I still need to make a minor bug fix to
http://search.cpan.org/author/SHARRISON/RPM-Tools-0.5/
related to valid characters in the dynamically generated RPM names.

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

Yes... sigh... the only way is to make the change above.

Lately, I have been formally incorporating all the different CPAN
"compilation tweaks" and "source code patches" so that we can automate them
(and also, in a sense, probe for them) on any LON-CAPA filesystem.

Based on using this approach on my own systems, I am very optimistic that this
will make it VERY EASY to help LON-CAPA grow/refine itself in terms of
changing CPAN packages as well as several new CPAN packages that I have been
thinking of introducing.

It will also help increase security in terms of WHAT is on the filesystem.

There is room for optimism.  Once I get home next week to the moral support of
my dog, finishing this off will be a no-brainer.

Regards,
Scott

> 
> - 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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