Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> writes: > Yeah, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if many folks running > FreeBSD with any interest in Kerberos have MIT Kerberos installed given > that Heimdal doesn't seem to be under any kind of ongoing active > development and is just in this maintenance mode.
Yeah, that's a pretty scary situation for security-critical software. Maybe we should just desupport Heimdal, rather than investing effort to the contrary? Also, the core-code versions of Heimdal in these BSDen are even scarier than the upstream releases, so I'm thinking that the fact that we currently compile against them is more a net negative than a positive. (Same logic as for macOS, really.) IOW, maybe it'd be okay to de-revert 3d4fa227b and add documentation saying that --with-gssapi requires MIT Kerberos not Heimdal. regards, tom lane