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

Michael R Sweet msweet at apple.com
Wed Aug 13 12:55:29 PDT 2008


Rick Cochran wrote:
> Erk.  Before I build my own special copy of a sufficiently recent MIT Kerberos 
> distribution, I'll be going back to 1st grade to brush up on my reading and 
> arithmetic skills.
> 
> The version of Kerberos in my up-to-date Leopard machine (via 'strings 
> /usr/lib/libkrb5.dylib') is 'krb5-1-6 1.6.2-postrelease'.  My newly polished 
> reading and arithmetic skills lead me to believe this means that "credential 
> caching/forwarding" will _not_ work for CUPS under Leopard.
> 
> Please let me know if I have missed the mark yet again.

OK, for Mac OS X at least you are OK with 10.5 or higher, since the
version of Kerberos in 10.5 contains the necessary bug fixes - 1.6.3
was released after Mac OS X 10.5...

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Michael R Sweet                        Senior Printing System Engineer





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