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Re: Windows 2000 Server as KDC

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Rudd)
Tue Jul 22 11:27:30 2003

Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 08:25:13 -0700
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On Tuesday, Jul 22, 2003, at 07:52 US/Pacific, Ken Hornstein wrote:

>
>>> an easier solution would be to setup a windows realm for Win2k KDC 
>>> and a cross re
>> alm trust with a linux box in a different realm.
>>>
>>
>> We were doing this (with Solaris, not Linux), but when the bug and fix
>> for the cross-realm security hole came out a few months ago, that 
>> caused
>> it all to break (we need krb4 cross-realm auth because AFS is in the
>> picture).  So, we're basically running an older un-patched krb524d in
>> order to keep things working ... but that doesn't make me comfortable 
>> in
>> the long run, so I'm looking for other solutions.
>
> So why haven't you switched to a V5 solution for AFS?  Lots of people
> have done this, and it works just fine, even with cross-realm.  This
> is assuming you're running a new enough version of OpenAFS, of course.
>

We're not running OpenAFS.  Still Transarc AFS.

I hadn't heard that there's a pure krb5 solution for AFS, though ... 
even with OpenAFS.


John

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