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Re: DCE kerberos vs. MIT

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Pato)
Thu Oct 10 10:50:31 1991

From: pato@apollo.com (Joe Pato)
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 91 09:31:09 EDT
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sommerfeld@apollo.com (Bill Sommerfeld), kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>, wed, 9 oct 91 21:00:25

    >> Binary licencees are up to the discretion of their supplier as to
    >> whether they have access to the raw kerberos API; if you don't, you'll
    >> have to get and port the full MIT distribution yourself, and it should
    >> be able to communicate with the DCE implementation of the KDC (if it
    >> doesn't, it's a bug).
    
    Who's bug?  OSF, or MIT?
    
    		Marc
    
That should be simple to answer.  The bug appears in the system that fails to
conform to the Kerberos V5 architecture specification.  (though my guess would
be that both implementations contain bugs :-)

- joe
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