[1303] in Kerberos
Kerberos on DOS workstations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (raj)
Mon Mar 18 23:37:06 1991
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 91 21:47:51 EDT
From: raj <KANUNGO@gwuvm.gwu.edu>
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Obviously, some of the assumptions made for UNIX based systems will
break down for DOS based networks. If I have to port Kerberos to DOS based
networks (which account for more than half of all LANs) many of which are conne
cted to UNIX based systems I will not have the ACL-based security which UNIX
offers. Moreover, many applications are out that allow mounting a DOS file-
system to a UNIX machine. I see Kerberos becoming very popular in UNIX
environments (academic as well as commercial). Both environments have
to accomodate DOS-based workstations or one of the major strengths of
Project Athena -- interoperability -- will not be available to others.
I would like to hear from anyone who has attempted to port Kerberos to DOS
based environments or has given any thoughts to it.
Thanks,
/ Raj
