Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Thomas Johansson <thomasj at isy.liu.se> wrote: > >> 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. >> > > A last set would be to have a seperate set of kerberos Libraries and > statically compile the cups you want against those. Its an ugly hack > but works in those cases. > Excellent tip! We completely missed that. Have now compiled and tested this on one client. It works! Thanks a lot! Now to the formalities.. My apoligies for kidnapping a thread! A mistake that will not happen again..