[CentOS] Kerberos 1.6.3 on centos 4/5??

[Thomas Johansson]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Thomas Johansson <thomasj at isy.liu.se> wrote:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> My problem is related to clientless authentication for printing. We are
>> evaluating if it's worth the trouble on centos. Uppgrading cups is not a
>> problem That i have already solved. Further research also states that
>> kerberos have to be version 1.6.3. This is a big problem. Neither centos
>> 4 nor centos 5 have the required version of kerberos. Compiling my own
>> compile kerberos is not something i want to do!
>>
>> Is it worth it or even possible to upgrade kerberos to 1.6.3 or will we
>> most likely break something else with an upgrade?? No rpms are available
>> and i suppose there's a reason for that. There's no problem compiling
>> cups or kerberos on both platforms. I just wanna find out if it is worth
>> the trouble we will get or if it's possible/recommended to do it?!?!.
>>     
>
> Upgrading kerberos on CentOS systems is not a trivial task. Kerberos
> is a basic component for a lot of packages which requires a large
> dependency chain. 
We noticed that. Several pages of dependencies  if one make a yum remove 
of krb5-workstation. I'm really dont want to try upgrading. Its more 
like i'm looking for arguments against such a crazy thing.

> I would look at it as follows:
>
> 1) CentOS-4/5 do not have kerberos needed.
> 2) Fedora-10/11 does have the kerberos needed.
> 3) CentOS-6 might be based off of Fedora-11.
>
> Build your proof of concept project with Fedora-10 with a plan of
> rebuilding the system after CentOS-6 comes out. Then you have both an
> immediate win and a long term plan on how to reach a stable product.
>
> Hope that helps.
>   
We have figured it out that far. On platforms like Solaris, ubuntu 
Fedora and others we have no problem printing. The problem is that we 
have a lot of software that require both centos 5 and centos 4. Cannot 
abandon centos for those clients. Also, the print project is a solution 
offered/pushed to us. Obviously we cannot use it on centos. They (the 
project leaders) have to choose another solution for centos. That will 
be the answer to the project leaders.

Thanks for the answer