Kerberos: The Definitive Guide

Building the distribution

The Kerberos 5 distribution builds much like many other Unix software packages, using the GNU autoconf configure process. Table 4-1 contains some configure options that you may want to change during the configure process. A list of all the options are available by using the standard --help option to the configure script.

Table 4-1. Configure options

Option	Description
--prefix=<dir>	Sets the directory prefix where the Kerberos binaries, libraries, documentation, and KDC databases are located. By default, everything will be installed under /usr/local ; however, some sites may want to change this to something else that fits their naming scheme.
-localstatedir=<dir>	Sets the directory prefix where the KDC databases will be located. Some sites may want to place the databases on a separate disk for performance and reliability reasons. By default, the KDC database is located underneath <prefix>/var
-without-krb4	By default, the MIT Kerberos 5 distribution builds a small Kerberos 4 compatibility layer, so that the KDC can respond to Kerberos 4 requests and also to build a Kerberos 5-to-4 ticket conversion client library. This option disables the Kerberos 4 compatibility.
--enable-dns --enable-dns-for-realm --enable-dns-for-kdc	These options (and the corresponding —disable-dns.. options) determine whether the client libraries can use DNS to automatically determine Kerberos configuration. In particular, dns-for-realm switches the ability for clients to use DNS to find the ...