Bug#434772: add suggests / recomments to krb5-config

Xavier Oswald x.oswald at free.fr
Mon Jul 30 23:45:26 UTC 2007


Hi,

> im using libauthen-simple-kerberos-perl in order to authenticate my Subversion
> repositories users against our Windows Domain Controller (Apache Webdav, Perl
> Handler). A simple checkout resulted in about ~600 connections (most of them
> ending up in TIME_WAIT after short time) to our Primary Domain Controller.
> Authentifaction did work but was slow as hell :)
> 
> A bit of fiddling resulted in noticing /etc/krb5.conf was missing. After
> creating this file with the right settings, all went a bit smoother and the
> module didnt open hundrets of connections (i dont know why it does so if this
> config file is missing ..).
> 
> I think recommending / suggesting krb5-config would be helpful (maybe also
> adding a short note to README.Debian or something..).

Ok, thanks for these informations.

I put a README.Debian file and Suggests: krb5-config to the control file in our
svn repo. I hope it will be uploaded soon into debian.

Greetings,
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