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Re: Manageability of larger networks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Turbo Fredriksson)
Sun Apr 13 08:16:43 2003

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From: Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com>
Date: 13 Apr 2003 14:15:15 +0200
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Quoting Andreas Heilwwagen <andreas.heilwagen@jamba.net>:

> The ideal solution from my point of view would be to
> user expressions like */portaladmin@<MYREALM>
> to authorize a group of trusted users to administrate
> the java application servers.

It's been discussed before. Kerberos is a AUTHENTICATION
system, not a AURHORIZATION system. For authorization,
use LDAP (my personal favorite).

> What concept is usually used to manage separate
> user groups in the Kerberos world?

You don't. You have principals. (dot, end, no more, ende
etc).

For saying 'user/application x have access to y', use
LDAP.
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