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Re: Finding the version of kinit/klist
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Sun Mar 8 16:22:37 2009
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@MIT.EDU>
To: Rainer Laatsch <Laatsch@uni-koeln.de>
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On Mar 7, 2009, at 21:49, Rainer Laatsch wrote:
> The OpenAFS people force a string into their programs at compile
> time, no extra flags. Doing e.g. 'strings /usr/vice/etc/afsd | grep
> OpenAFS' shows the version. A similar setup for krb5 would suffice;
> just propagate the
> corresponding item of krb5-config into kinit/klist/kdestroy.
We have something a little like that in the krb5 library, but (1)
telling a user to run the right "strings" invocation is a lot less
friendly than a --version flag, and (2) it looks like the optimizer
can throw the string away, in the current incarnation. :-(
Ken
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