[1790] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos Question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Pato)
Mon Mar 2 18:48:39 1992
From: pato@apollo.hp.com (Joe Pato)
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 92 17:50:49 EST
To: jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU (John Carr)
Cc: cherokee@gators.b11.ingr.com, kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU (John Carr), sun, 1 mar 92 11:44:14
The Kerberos 4 and Kerberos 5 protocols are incompatible. The MIT
Kerberos 5 distribution contains some compatibility code:
There is a library which converts Kerberos 4 library calls into
Kerberos 5 requests, so you can run many V4 programs in a V5
environment by relinking.
The Kerberos server can optionally service V4 requests.
There is a program to convert a V4 format Kerberos database to
a V5 format database.
The OSF DCE Security Component (which, in part, uses the Kerberos V5 protocol)
does not export V4 compatibility. The server does not accept the V4 protocol
and the runtime library does not include the V4 API.
Individual vendors are free to restore compatibility with V4, but this is not
part of the OSF offering.
-- Joe Pato
Cooperative Object Computing Division / East
Hewlett-Packard Company
pato@apollo.hp.com
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