[1762] in Kerberos
New Macintosh Kerberos library available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti)
Fri Feb 21 12:50:03 1992
From: srz@Athena.MIT.EDU (Stan Zanarotti)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 92 12:13:59 -0500
To: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
A new release of the MIT Kerberos and DES libraries for the
Macintosh is now available via anonymous FTP from Athena-dist.mit.edu
(18.71.0.38) [pub/kerberos/README.mac]. This is an update for the
Kerberos library that Jon Rochlis ported to the Macintosh. As always,
export restrictions may apply.
This release has clean-ups that were added for the TechMail 2.0
release. It has some bug fixes, but it mainly reflects a new configuration
of libraries and Makefiles. Kerberos configuration information
(/etc/krb.conf, /etc/services) are now stored as resources in the
application. Tickets are stored in memory, and are not shared among
applications.
One possibly controversial change is that the Kerberos library now
uses the timed protocol to get the time for the Macintosh at the
beginning of a session. Macintoshes do not have a good understanding
of GMT time, and we would have had a hard time dealing with time skew,
daylight savings time, time zone settings, etc. In our environment,
the threat of a spoofed time server is not that high, so we made a
tradeoff for convenience. Since we're distributing source, people can change
it if they want.
We recommend that people pick up the TechMail sources, available via
anonymous FTP from net-dist.mit.edu (18.72.0.3) under
pub/TechMail/for-non-mit-use/src, to get a build tree for the MIT
libraries (sans Kerberos). This distribution contains the underlying
bsd library that the Kerberos library uses, as well as top-level Makefiles.
TechMail is a Macintosh application that reads and sends mail using POP3
(Kerberos or vanilla) and SMTP.
-stan
