Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> A Debian user *has* found yet another odd interaction between Kerberos and
> OpenLDAP (I can see Steve groaning already).  comp.protocols.kerberos has
> the thread; it's not in the BTS yet, in part because I don't really
> understand what's going on.  Kerberos upstream is actively investigating.

[...]

> The thing is, there's code in Kerberos specifically to *keep* it from
> doing this by setting a flag if it initialized without pthreads that's
> supposed to keep it from ever using pthread-related mutexes later.  It
> seems that this is not working for some reason for this particular user,
> maybe.

> I'm not sure if this is sufficiently critical to warrant an RC bug, and
> in fact I'm not even sure where the bug is yet, although it's looking
> more and more like it's in the Kerberos libraries.

Sam and Ken have now found and fixed this problem and Sam has uploaded a
new version of krb5 with this bug fixed (and with high urgency), so now we
should be all clear to let krb5 migrate.

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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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