Kerberos v5 authentication in ckpasswd or separate?

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <rra at Stanford.EDU> writes:

> It will be based on Christopher Lindsey's code, and if it were in
> ckpasswd it would add a couple of additional command line options (one
> to do Kerberos authentication and another to set the instance if
> desired).  Perhaps more problematically, that would mean that if you
> have Kerberos libraries available (and most people on Solaris do these
> days), ckpasswd would link with another three shared libraries and might
> start slower.

> Any preferences?

Hm.  I could require --with-kerberos be given in order to link against the
Kerberos libraries, I suppose.  That would likely work; it's the opposite
of what we did with PAM, but a lot more people use PAM than use Kerberos.

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