libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit: buggy autoconf m4 script makes SASL's "keytab" option not work

Roberto C. Sánchez roberto at connexer.com
Tue Jan 28 20:33:31 UTC 2014


Sam, Russ, and Ben,

I am going through some old bug reports against cyrus-sasl2, and I am
curious as to your thoughts about the fix for #651308 as suggested by
the submitter.

On Thu, Dec 08, 2011 at 01:19:47AM +0800, Liu Yubao wrote:
> 
>    * What was the outcome of this action?
>    * What outcome did you expect instead?
> 
> I feel it's better to fix sasl.m4 rather than directly change
> plugins/gssapi.c to add more macros, maybe it's even better
> to just change /usr/include/mit-krb5/gssapi/gssapi_krb5.h to
> use this macro:
> #define krb5_gss_register_acceptor_identity gsskrb5_register_acceptor_identity
> but this way breaks ABI compatibility.
> 
Would the suggested change to MIT Kerberos be something that would be
entertained by yourselves and by upstream?  Or is this something that
needs to be fixed from within the cyrus-sasl2 package?

Regards,

-Roberto

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