On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Thomas Johansson <thom...@isy.liu.se> wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Thomas Johansson <thom...@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. -- 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" _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
