The key problem is that there is no standard Kerberos programming API. The MIT implementation is very popular but even it is not completely standard. Heimdal is also popular, but the programming interface is different.
Fetchmail probably chose to implement their Kerberos authentication using some deprecated APIs that are no longer supported. So, "Boo, Fetchmail" for being shortsighted.
The solution is to program to GSSAPI (which is an IETF standard) and use the Kerberos mechanism as the security provider. This makes your application portable and ties it to a known standard rather than depending on a specific release of a non-standard implementation.
PKINIT is not yet standardized by the IETF.
Whatever implementations are out there not will ultimately be broken by the time the document clears the IETF.
Don't even bother trying to get interoperable PKINIT implementations working now, wait until the spec is finalized.
Why is it that some people automatically reduce every posting about Sun down to "Linux is a huge threat to Sun, Sun hates the Open Source community, blah blah, blah" ?
What a bunch of crap.
Sun will be supporting Open Office for a L-O-N-G time, its the only realistic alternative to Office in the Unix/Linux market, how would Sun benefit by abandoning OpenOffice?
Have you ever even used Solaris? Lately? Solaris is full of GNU software, there are entire CDs full of GNU packages distributed as part of Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. Huge chunks of GNU and Open Source code has been integrated into Solaris in the past few years. Why would they just abandon this - what would the benefit be to Sun?
You have to evaluate Sun's intentions from a business perspective. It makes no sense for Sun to abandon GNU or any other sort of Open Source code - its free, its popular, and people seem to want to use it.
It would, however, be bad business move to abandon Solaris. Solaris is a rock-solid, very mature, and a very strong competitor in the Unix/Linux market. For companies running big-iron SPARC boxes for scalability and hardware robustness, there is no alternative. Even on intel and AMD hardware, it is a very strong competitor with the introduction of Solaris 10.
The repair was a known problem for the Nikon 5700 - the flash module stopped working. I think the repair was fairly common and Im fairly certain I got my original camera back.
I love to tinker with code but I see little or no benefit to reprogramming my camera. It works great as it is.
Firmware in digital cameras CAN be updated, but usually only by the factory. I had to send mine out for a repair and it came back with updated firmware (the revision number was different).
Why the F* would you want to screw up your digital camera? The last thing I would want to do it run some half-ass "open" camera firmware from sourceforge (the ultimate repository of broken and half-ass software) that was not exactly correct and have it ruin all of my pictures or void my warranty.
Before everyone here completely overreacts (oops, too late, this IS slashdot, after all), the odds of bringing down an airliner by shining a laser pointer into the cockpit are about likely as if you shot a BB gun at that same plane.
Consider the fact that airliner cockpit windows are very narrow, rounded, and designed to reflect glaring light, OH, and they are on the UPPEr side of the fuselage, not the side facing the ground. Also, the planes are probably a couple of thousand feet in the air, moving at a couple of hundred miles per hour (even during approach), the odds of blinding BOTH pilots and causing an crash are astronomically small.
Slashdot needs a new category "FUD and paranoia".
Read what an actual pilot has to say about the whole silly matter(http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2005/01/04/askthepilot118/index_np.html) before you convict this idiot
of anything more than being a moron. 25 years is
an insane sentence for a moronic act. The guy admitted to trying to take down the helicopter, but its insane to charge the guy under the patriot act. No way he gets anywhere close to that kind of final sentence, if he's even proven guilty at all.
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Wrong. Use addressless tickets. Problem solved.
Just set your krb5.conf file to use the AD server as the KDC. Thats it.
If that is too much for you, then there are also a ton of documents available from Microsoft that tell you, step-by-step, how to do it.
Fetchmail probably chose to implement their Kerberos authentication using some deprecated APIs that are no longer supported. So, "Boo, Fetchmail" for being shortsighted.
The solution is to program to GSSAPI (which is an IETF standard) and use the Kerberos mechanism as the security provider. This makes your application portable and ties it to a known standard rather than depending on a specific release of a non-standard implementation.
Don't even bother trying to get interoperable PKINIT implementations working now, wait until the spec is finalized.
What a bunch of crap.
Sun will be supporting Open Office for a L-O-N-G time, its the only realistic alternative to Office in the Unix/Linux market, how would Sun benefit by abandoning OpenOffice?
Have you ever even used Solaris? Lately? Solaris is full of GNU software, there are entire CDs full of GNU packages distributed as part of Solaris 9 and Solaris 10. Huge chunks of GNU and Open Source code has been integrated into Solaris in the past few years. Why would they just abandon this - what would the benefit be to Sun?
You have to evaluate Sun's intentions from a business perspective. It makes no sense for Sun to abandon GNU or any other sort of Open Source code - its free, its popular, and people seem to want to use it.
It would, however, be bad business move to abandon Solaris. Solaris is a rock-solid, very mature, and a very strong competitor in the Unix/Linux market. For companies running big-iron SPARC boxes for scalability and hardware robustness, there is no alternative. Even on intel and AMD hardware, it is a very strong competitor with the introduction of Solaris 10.
The repair was a known problem for the Nikon 5700 - the flash module stopped working. I think the repair was fairly common and Im fairly certain I got my original camera back.
Firmware in digital cameras CAN be updated, but usually only by the factory. I had to send mine out for a repair and it came back with updated firmware (the revision number was different).
Why the F* would you want to screw up your digital camera? The last thing I would want to do it run some half-ass "open" camera firmware from sourceforge (the ultimate repository of broken and half-ass software) that was not exactly correct and have it ruin all of my pictures or void my warranty.
Before everyone here completely overreacts (oops, too late, this IS slashdot, after all), the odds of bringing down an airliner by shining a laser pointer into the cockpit are about likely as if you shot a BB gun at that same plane. Consider the fact that airliner cockpit windows are very narrow, rounded, and designed to reflect glaring light, OH, and they are on the UPPEr side of the fuselage, not the side facing the ground. Also, the planes are probably a couple of thousand feet in the air, moving at a couple of hundred miles per hour (even during approach), the odds of blinding BOTH pilots and causing an crash are astronomically small. Slashdot needs a new category "FUD and paranoia". Read what an actual pilot has to say about the whole silly matter(http://www.salon.com/tech/col/smith/2005/01 /04/askthepilot118/index_np.html) before you convict this idiot
of anything more than being a moron. 25 years is
an insane sentence for a moronic act. The guy admitted to trying to take down the helicopter, but its insane to charge the guy under the patriot act. No way he gets anywhere close to that kind of final sentence, if he's even proven guilty at all.