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Re: Official port number for kerberos server?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Wed Feb 12 00:19:46 1992

Date: Tue, 11 Feb 92 23:24:41 -0500
From: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: sjogren@TGV.COM
Cc: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Sam Sjogren's message of Mon, 3 Feb 92 16:14:01 PST,
Reply-To: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU

   Date:     Mon, 3 Feb 92 16:14:01 PST
   From: sjogren@TGV.COM (Sam Sjogren)

   Eeek.  OK, is everything else in this relatively recent copy
   of kerberos/src/prototypes/services.append properly assigned,
   aside from the reassignment of the KDC?

Actually.... no, some things are still not properly assigned.  Klogin and
kshell have been assigned.

     klogin	  543/tcp		      # Kerberos authenticated rlogin
     kshell	  544/tcp	  cmd	      # and remote shell

Kerberos has been moved to port 88, although people will have to be
listening on port 750 for some time to come, and assume that many
servers won't be converted to listen to port 88 for some time.

     kerberos	  750/udp	  kdc	      # Kerberos authentication--udp
     kerberos	  750/tcp	  kdc	      # Kerberos authentication--tcp

Kerberos_master has not be reserved, but it is only really need for
intra-site transaction, since it's used by the kpasswd and kadmin
programs.  The same goes for krb_prop, which is only used between the
Kerberos master and its slaves.  These port numbers *have* been assigned
for other services, so if we request official assignments for these
services, we'll have to move them.

     kerberos_master 751/udp		      # Kerberos authentication
     kerberos_master 751/tcp		      # Kerberos authentication
     krb_prop	  754/tcp		      # Kerberos slave propagation


passwd_server and userreg_server aren't used by any Kerberos programs
that I am aware of, so they shouldn't be a problem.  The knetd port is
used, but the use of knetd has been deprecated, so getting a port for it
may not be that important.

     passwd_server   752/udp		      # Kerberos passwd server
     userreg_server  753/udp		      # Kerberos userreg server
     knetd		  2053/tcp		      # Kerberos de-multiplexor

These programs also haven't been assigned proper ports; we should
probably do some thing about these.  These ports have been used yet, so
if we just request them to be assigned, we should hopefully be able to
get them.

     eklogin	  2105/tcp		      # Kerberos encrypted rlogin
     kpop		  1109/tcp		      # Pop with Kerberos
     erlogin	  888/tcp		      # Login and environment passing

   Also, I've seen port 751 marked as "hesupd".  Is that an old usage?

Yes, I'm pretty sure that's an old usage.

						- Ted

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