Re: Heimdal 7.3: ext_keytab fails with "Operation requires `get-keys' privilege"

"Henry B (Hank) Hotz, CISSP" <[email protected]> Thu, 29 Jun 2017 18:37:11 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.heimdal.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> On Jun 29, 2017, at 1:42 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman <[email protected]> wrote:
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>>> That would not have had the desired effect of confronting sites
>>> with the
>>> insecurity of extracting keys.  We can't force them to stop
>>> depending on
>>> that in one fell swoop.
>> If you create, then require, then eventually eliminate the option,
>> you can announce that plan as part of the release
>> notes/announcements. Everyone is confronted with it at build time,
>> and everyone is told what to expect, and when you will do it.
> 
> No, only people who build Heimdal are confronted with it at build time.
> Most people will use packaged versions, not build their own.

Is that why I’m the only one who ever complains about autotools/configure? Does that mean I should consider NetBSD/arm to be a hopeless cause? 8-/

Still think there is value to putting the appropriate notices in the release notes and announcements though.

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