I have been building my BLFS for some time.
At first I decided that I do not need Kerberos, LDAP and SASL, because
my system should be a desktop not a server.
I installed of course PAM, Shadow and Cracklib (Cracklib more for fun
than for really need). I thought that Kerberos, LDAP and SASL are rather
for servers and I will never need them.
Second thought came while compiling KDE. It complained at the
configuration stage that not having these components will make KDE lack
much of the network functionality. This stopped me (I installed only
core of the KDE - I am thinking about reinstallation) and made me to
conduct some additional research to reconsider installing these packages.
After some googling I am still all in doubts.
Most descriptions are about servers and very serious security concerns.
I think I do not need them.
But in most distributions you get Kerberos together with basic graphical
desktop environment.
I think I need probably only libraries for client applications.
Now I think I should install SASL - but not Kerberos. I think I also do
not need LDAP.
Can anyone tell me in few words what I really miss without these packages?
May be there is a paper or a book which will provide the basic
information about security and let me make more wise decision?
I think the answer is not so easy...
juras
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