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. 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. > Best Regards, > Thomas > > > References;;; > From cups web page.... > > Using Kerberos Authentication > CUPS 1.3 adds Kerberos support which allows you to use a Key > Distribution Center (KDC) for authentication on your local CUPS server > and when printing to a remote authenticated queue. This document > describes how to configure CUPS to use Kerberos authentication and > provides helpful links to the MIT help pages for configuring Kerberos on > your systems and network. > > http://www.cups.org/documentation.php/kerberos.html > System Requirements > The following are required to use Kerberos with CUPS: > Heimdal Kerberos (any version) or MIT Kerberos (1.6.3 or newer) > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice"