Before installing the package, you may want to preserve the ftp program from the Inetutils package. This is because using the Heimdal ftp program to connect to non kerberized ftp servers may not work properly. It will allow you to connect (letting you know that transmission of the password is clear text) but will have problems doing puts and gets. mv /usr/bin/ftp /usr/bin/ftpn If you wish the Heimdal package to link against the cracklib library, you must apply a patch: patch -Np1 -i ../heimdal-&heimdal-version;-cracklib-1.patch Install Heimdal by running the following commands: patch -Np1 -i ../heimdal-&heimdal-version;-fhs-compliance-1.patch && ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc/heimdal \ --datadir=/var/lib/heimdal --libexecdir=/usr/sbin \ --sharedstatedir=/usr/share --localstatedir=/var/lib/heimdal \ --enable-shared --with-openssl=/usr && make && make install && mv /bin/login /bin/login.shadow && mv /bin/su /bin/su.coreutils && mv /usr/bin/{login,su} /bin && ln -sf ../../bin/login /usr/bin && mv /usr/lib/lib{otp.so.0,otp.so.0.1.4,kafs.so.0,kafs.so.0.4.0} /lib && mv /usr/lib/lib{krb5.so.17,krb5.so.17.3.0,asn1.so.6,asn1.so.6.0.2} /lib && mv /usr/lib/lib{roken.so.16,roken.so.16.0.3,crypto.so.0.9.7} /lib && mv /usr/lib/lib{com_err.so.2,com_err.so.2.1,db-4.1.so} /lib && ln -sf ../../lib/lib{otp.so.0,otp.so.0.1.4,kafs.so.0,kafs.so.0.4.0} /usr/lib && ln -sf ../../lib/lib{krb5.so.17,krb5.so.17.3.0,asn1.so.6,asn1.so.6.0.2} /usr/lib && ln -sf ../../lib/lib{roken.so.16,roken.so.16.0.3,crypto.so.0.9.7} /usr/lib && ln -sf ../../lib/lib{com_err.so.2,com_err.so.2.1,db-4.1.so} /usr/lib && ldconfig