[1481] in Kerberos
Re: Version V
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Jul 30 21:52:22 1991
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 91 21:25:57 -0400
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: athey@lorien.ocf.llnl.gov
Cc: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Charles L. Athey III's message of Wed, 24 Jul 91 17:10:52 PDT,
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 91 17:10:52 PDT
From: athey@lorien.ocf.llnl.gov (Charles L. Athey III)
My questions are:
My apologies for not getting back to this message until now; it's was
lost in my backlog of mail messages, and as usual my work queue is
requiring about 2-3 times the number of hours/day that I'm allotted.
:-)
Has anybody else brought up V5 without having V4 there first?
Can we share information?
Should we bring up V4 too, just so its there? (We have no plans to use
V4)
You shouldn't need to bring up V4 in order to experiment with V5; since
the Kerberos V5 protocol was substantially changed from Kerberos V4,
Kerberos V5 shares almost no code in common with Kerberos V4.
However.....
We need a great deal more documentation on V5, is there some
available?
.... since we currently have a very limited amount of resources for
Kerberos development, we have elected to concentrate on trying to get
code working and stable at the expense of updating and rewriting
documentation. Therefore, since there is very little documentation for
Kerberos V5, I strongly suggest that you read the Kerberos V4
documentation before you try to play with Kerberos V5.
If some of the Beta testers is willing to donate time to help write some
documentation for Kerberos V5 (or willing to help in other ways,
including potentially donating code), please let me know.
Who can we talk to about solving our problems?
I really don't want to ask questions on this list for things members
would consider simple.
Not knowing what is considered "simple" with V5 makes it difficult to
guess whether the questions should be asked here or not.
Bug reports should be sent to the address krb5-bugs@mit.edu. Questions
about how to obtain Kerberos (short answer: anonymous FTP to
ATHENA-DIST.MIT.EDU) should be sent to info-kerberos@mit.edu. Generic
questions about Kerberos V5 should probably go to this list; since
Kerberos V5 only recently entered beta test, most questions/answers will
probably be useful to many people.
- Ted
