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Re: kerberos testing server/realm

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Sep 2 12:53:48 2014

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On 09/02/2014 04:20 AM, bodik wrote:
> But I was thinking, if there would be something like "static_kdc.c" ? some very
> small implementation without all fancy features like PA, crossrealming, heavy
> encryption, something which would just send out session keys to everybody having
> some static secrets for anyone ... ?

> Is there anything like that or even could be this possible ?
> Or am I completely our of line ?

It's possible in theory, but I don't think it would decrease the
administrative burden of deploying it by much, so it wouldn't warrant
the development burden of maintaining an additional KDC implementation.
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