On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:47:09AM -0400, Tareq Alrashid wrote: > The new world order seem to demand some adjustments to how we do > things nowadays with on premise and cloud service deployment. We > know how many OS’es come with prebuilt versions Kerberos RHEL/OS > X…etc., and I am starting to ponder if efficiency could be optimized > if we no longer built our own Kerberos binaries from downloaded MIT > source, but rather just configure OS’s e.g. RHEL 7 version of > krb5-1.13? RedHat does release security patches with OS patches and > that can save us some manual labor. > > Is this an obvious non-issue as which version we choose to deploy or > is the known philosophy, I have been following since 1999; download > from MIT and build on my own. > > I have my own opinion, but I also wonder what others had in mind > > Thank you, > Tareq
I'd use vendor provided packages whenever possible, unless you have some very specific need to roll from source. Scales better and frees your time to do other, valuable things. :) Ray ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list Kerberos@mit.edu https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos