In message <Pine.NEB.4.62.0504141419510.495@himring.draga.com>, Jim Wise writes
>On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Love H=F6rnquist =C5strand wrote:
>
>>I've asked core for permission to remove Kerberos 4 support from current,
>>and thus the next upcoming netbsd major release after 3.0.  I was asked to
>>query our users if there was still users of the kerberos 4 code that felt
>>that running Kerberos 4 from pkgsrc wasn't good enough.  I promised to glue
>>in code in the KDC so it would still service requests to Kerberos 4
>>clients.
>>
>>Do anyone really mind me removing Kerberos 4 from the base distribution ?
>
>Speaking as someone who has thought this too soon to do in the past, I
>strongly support such a removal, as long as a user forced to use his
>NetBSD system in a Kerberos IV environment has an option in pkgsrc
>that's usable, and as long as the mentioned code to allow NetBSD to stay
>in the running for environments which still have some Kerberos IV
>systems is added.

Speaking as someone at a very kerberos centric site, I also think
this is fine.  zephyr is the only external product we use that uses
K4, and I can hope someone will work on converting that before K4
is abandoned entirely.

>Thanks for working on this!

I concur.

-Tracy