[2393] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos V5 Questions (not in FAQ)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Lunt)
Tue Nov 24 18:07:33 1992
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 17:43:31 EST
From: Steve Lunt <lunt@ctt.bellcore.com>
To: jennie+@cs.cmu.edu
Cc: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
Jennifer,
> 1) How fast can the TGS hand out tickets, and on what architecture is
> that number based on?
The answer is really fast. You are not likely to see any
impact on the performance of your application due to Kerberos
ticket fetching. A slave servers can be set up, but their
mostly used in case the master is down or otherwise
unavailable.
> 2) Can anyone tell me how I can get a copy of the following document
> from the FAQ:
> [8] C. Neumann and J. Kohl, "The Kerberos(tm) Network Authentication
> Service (V5)," April 1992. Currently released as an Internet Draft.
Via anonymous ftp from nnsc.nsf.net in
internet-drafts/draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-01.ps:
Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the
username "anonymous" and password "guest". After logging in,
Type "cd internet-drafts".
"get draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-01.ps".
Internet-Drafts directories are located at:
o East Coast (US)
Address: nnsc.nsf.net (128.89.1.178)
o West Coast (US)
Address: ftp.nisc.sri.com (192.33.33.22)
o Pacific Rim
Address: munnari.oz.au (128.250.1.21)
o Europe
Address: nic.nordu.net (192.36.148.17)
Internet-Drafts are also available by mail.
Send a message to: mail-server@nisc.sri.com. In the body type:
"SEND draft-ietf-cat-kerberos-01.ps".
For questions, please mail to internet-drafts@cnri.reston.va.us.
> 3) Is there anything stopping a client from asking for two tickets for
> the same service when it's not necessary?
Not clear what you mean, but for example if you rlogin into
host A, log out, then rlogin to host A again, you will again
fetch a ticket for host A even though you already possess
one. However, this is not a problem.
I'll defer on the other questions...
-- Steve
Steven J. Lunt Bellcore
Information Technology Security RRC 1L-213
lunt@bellcore.com 444 Hoes Lane
(908) 699-4244 Piscataway, NJ 08854
