Mac OS X 10.2: Issues With Kerberized Carbon CFM Applications After Upgrading to Mac OS X 10.2

Existing Kerberos users may encounter different issues with Kerberized Carbon CFM applications after upgrading to Mac OS X 10.2.
Symptom

If Mac OS X 10.2 is installed over a Mac OS X 10.1.5 Kerberos client on which either the MIT Mac OS X 10.1 Kerberos Extras or MIT Kerberos for Macintosh 4.0 had been installed, then you may encounter these two symptoms:

1. You may see an alert when the Kerberized Carbon CFM application tries to connect to a Kerberos enabled service. For example:

After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.2, when you open the Eudora email application, an alert box appears with a message that that one of the Kerberos libraries failed to initialize. Eudora then quits, and email cannot be accessed.

2. The application may be missing Kerberos authentication options. For example:

After upgrading to Mac OS X 10.2, the Fetch FTP application does not have any Kerberos authentication options available. The only available authentication option is to connect using a plain text password. Prior to upgrading to Mac OS X 10.2, the Preferences Security pane had Kerberos-related options, and New Connection windows had options to choose in the Security pop-up menu (KClient or GSS options in addition to a Cleartext password option).

Note: Similar issues can occur if either:

Solution

For more information, see technical document 107153, "Mac OS X 10.2: Information for Using Kerberos".


Important: Information about products not manufactured by Apple is provided for information purposes only, and does not constitute Apple's recommendation or endorsement. Please contact the vendor for additional information.

Document 17159, "Locating Vendor Information" can help you search for a particular vendor's address and phone number.
Published Date: Feb 17, 2012