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Re: Version 5 Question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Chinitz)
Tue Aug 4 07:54:10 1992

To: dinah@rockytop.tivoli.com (Dinah McNutt {sysadminzon})
Cc: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "03 Aug 92 17:10:57 GMT."
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 92 07:34:57 -0400
From: Jonathan Chinitz <jec@osf.org>

>> 
>> I had heard the in Version 5, tickets would no longer be stored in /tmp.
>> Is this true? What is the mechanism used? Does this mean you can now
>> have more than one user on a system and not compromise the authentication
>> scheme?
>> 

If you are interested in an implementation of V5 that does not store
credentials in /tmp - take a look at OSF/DCE v1.0.1.

-Jonathan
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