conflict between heimdal and umich gssapi library and their consequences

[Simon Wilkinson]

On 1 Sep 2007, at 18:07, Russ Allbery wrote:

>
> The UMich library
> adds nothing so far as I know other than the ability to dynamically  
> chose
> Kerberos implementations, which given the problems it's causing  
> doesn't
> strike me as worth it.

Historically, the UMich library has caused no end of grief. When I  
ended up having to deal with it, it didn't implement all of the  
GSSAPI functions, and would call exit() if it's configuration file  
was missing or corrupt. Both Firefox and Thunderbird now check to see  
which GSSAPI library they have dynamically loaded, and disable GSSAPI  
functionality if it's the UMich one.

Cheers,

Simon.