[OpenAFS] aklog oddness?

Derek Atkins warlord@MIT.EDU
Wed, 21 Dec 2005 10:36:39 -0500


Quoting Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>:

>>> Sorry, I misread the 1.2.7 above as being the OpenAFS version.
>>> The OpenAFS 1.4.0 you have installed should handle Kerberos 5 tokens
>>> just fine.
>>
>> Unfortunately you are incorrect..  The 1.4.0 RPMS do not.  They still
>> ship the old krb5-afs (migration kit) aklog.  This will be fixed
>> in the 1.4.1 release / RPMS.
>
> Given the fucked-upness with the 1.4.0 RPMS & aklog, should we just
> tell people who use them that they shouldn't try to use aklog and
> should stick with klog instead?  This seems to be a big problem people
> are having on Linux, and it would save everyone's time if we just
> told them that it probably won't work and/or we can't help you if it
> doesn't work.

It's not true that "aklog doesn't work".  It's only true that "aklog
doesn't work with pure krb5 tickets/tokens without using krb524".  Again,
this will all be fixed in 1.4.1 which was due out last month.

> --Ken

-derek

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