[cups.general] Kerberos authentication - help needed - take 2

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Tue Aug 12 15:43:05 PDT 2008


Rick Cochran wrote:
> ...
>> Also, you need to use either Heimdal Kerberos or a new enough version
>> of MIT Kerberos (1.6.3 or higher) to get credential caching/forwarding
>> to work.
> 
> I have krb5-libs-1.6.1-17.el5_1.1 on my client workstation, and 
> krb5-libs-1.3.4-54.el4_6.1 on my server.

Those are too old and will *not* work.

> ...
> Additionally, Kerberos works with the cupsctl command _only_ when it is executed 
> on the server.  It does not work when the cupsctl command is executed from the 
> client.  Is this because the server is using too old a version of MIT Kerberos? 
>   If so, then that could explain everything.

That's very likely, and both the client and server's versions of
Kerberos are too old...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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