[3811] in Kerberos
Re: kerberos v4 on osf
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Herndon)
Wed Sep 7 18:48:04 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 7 Sep 1994 13:53:25 -0600
From: rh@craycos.com (Robert Herndon)
Bill Sharp writes:
> I've not even though about this yet but since one day we might have to
> do this, was wondering if anyone had got kerberos running on osf alpha
> boxes yet.
>
> Knowing that cygnus have done it would be reassuring, but not much help
> to those of us lobotomised by ITAR...
I can't say anything about Alpha, but I ported Kerberos V4 (not V5)
to the Cray 2 and Cray 3 architectures. I sent the relevant changes
for the 64 bit architecture to Theodore T'so. [Crays have 64 bit longs,
ints, and shorts (where storage is concerned) and 64 bit longs, ~47 bit
ints, and 32 bit shorts (where significance is concerned). Seems to
be working fine with the servers either on a Cray or on a Sun 4 or on
a PC running BSDi (there are difficulties with kpasswd under BSDi).]
The changes, though trivial, were moderately numerous, and I think
I did a reasonable job of isolating C type sizes from the sizes of
things that get shipped in packets (provided longs are at least 32
bits and ints are at least 16 bits, which I believe ANSI guarantees).
Unfortunately, I have no idea if anything is being done with the changes,
whether there will be another release of Kerberos V4, or if the changes
are likely to be migrated to V5.
Robert Herndon
rh@craycos.com
