[Sunhelp] Solaris 8 libkrb?

[Kevin Stevens]

>From: singer at redbrick.dcu.ie (Brian Scanlan )
>Reply-To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Solaris 8 libkrb?
>Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 08:06:41 +0000
>
>On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:40:39AM -0800, Kevin Stevens wrote:
> > I've DLed qpopper in a prepackaged format to allow my internal machines 
>to
> > POP their mail (sendmail is running just fine - well, ok anyway on the
> > Sparc).  It installs fine, but fails on execution with the message:
> >
> > ld.so.1: /usr/local/lib/popper: fatal: libkrb.so.1: open failed: No such
> > file or directory
> >
> > Lovely.  FIND / -name libkrb.so.1 finds nothing on the system.  Man 
>libkrb
> > says that it should be part of SUNWcsl or SUNWarc.  Pkginfo says that 
>both
> > packages are completely and correctly installed.
> >
> > Next?
>
>Get the source code, and compile without kerberos enabled.
>
>Or you could go with a different POP3 server.
>
>http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/daemons/pop3.html
>has one or two POP3 servers.
>
>I've used
>ftp://ftp.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/packages/cucipop/
>happily before.
>
>How about getting smarter, and getting an IMAP server though.
>http://www.freshmeat.net/appindex/daemons/imap.html
>
>No plain text passwords pointlessly going across the network,
>security bonus.
>
>Incidentally, libkrb ain't installed on a Solaris Early Access box I've 
>access to, yet it's on my Solaris 7 11/99 Sparc box here.
>
>Brian.

Thanks for the workaround suggestions.  But what to do about the library 
itself?  Surely Sun hasn't just decided that Kerberos is dead (he's 
immortal, anyway!).  Should I raise a what-the-hell? with Sun somehow?

KeS
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