[DEP-BLOAT] what the hell is Kerberos?

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Aug 21 16:29:07 UTC 2006


On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:09:28PM +0200, Leszek Matok wrote:
> Kerberos is a network authentication system. The krb5-libs package
> contains the shared libraries needed by Kerberos 5. If you are using
> Kerberos, you need to install this package.
[...]
> I admit that it's the description that made it funny for me, not the
> dependency tree.


Yeah that description should maybe be updated. But I don't think we're going
to stop linking against Kerberos. :)

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