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With the most recent month's OS updates for Devuan GNU+Linux, I discovered that krb5-auth-dialog has now been updated for the first time in 4+ years!

The GNOME people have now removed the tray icon, which is the entire reason I wanted the software! So I downgraded to krb5-auth-plugin=3.26.1-4 and that now behaves like I want it to.

I was perusing /r/linux (that's a subreddit, if the syntax is unfamiliar to you) and came across Kerberos authentication on the Librem 5 which links to a Purism blog post by Guido Günter, one of the maintainers of krb5-auth-dialog. The screenshots in his article about kerberos on a Purism phone show krb5-auth-dialog, updated for a GTK4 and mobile world! I'm sure his changes fit nicely with that paradigm, and it's good that the software is still maintained.

That being said, its modern incarnation is useless on a real workstation so I reverted it. I had to download it and store it in a local apt repository.

Maybe someday I will fork krb5-auth-dialog into krb5-auth-trayicon and merge any changes (such as build with meson instead of GNU Make) that do not relate to deleting the tray icon. There are 122 commits and 119029 lines in the git diff between branches.