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Re: Are the plugins directories necessary for client code?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Tue Aug 7 21:52:44 2007

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On Aug 7, 2007, at 17:18, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
> redfloyd@gmail.com wrote:
>> I'm building on a platform that has a half-assed posix environment
>> (amazingly enough, it's *NOT* Windows), and the makefiles for the
>> plugins (specificly db2) are blowing up.
>>
>> The company I'm contracting to has an existing product that a client
>> wants kerberized.  As such, it's really only the client code  
>> (libkrb5,
>> clients/*).  Do I need to build the plugins for everything to work
>> properly?
>>
>> Thanks.
> the db2 plug-in is only used by the kdc.  it is not required if you  
> just
> want client support.

Note that future versions will include plugins for preauth systems  
like pkinit.  So, in the long run, you may want to get plugin support  
working anyways...

Ken


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