[4166] in Kerberos
Re: kerberos limit ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary Gaskell)
Thu Nov 10 15:29:41 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 94 23:20:32 GMT
From: gaskell@thunder.dstc.qut.edu.au (Gary Gaskell)
Lim Gek Meng (gmlim@merlion.singnet.com.sg) wrote:
: Kerberos has been used on my terminal server to authenicate users
: dialling in. However, I am not familiar with kerberos and would like to
: know if there are any limits to the number of users that can be stored in
: the kerberos database ( 1000, 2000 etc.)
: Appreciate any info on the above.
: --
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: * LIM GEK MENG * "Whatever you do will be insignificant, *
: * SingNet * but it is very important that you do it." *
: * SINGAPORE TELECOMS * --Mahatma Gandhi *
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Lim, I believe Penn State uni in the US, has something like 100 000 principals
in their Kerberos system, but it is up to them to provide more details I
guess.
Cheers Gary
PS I think Kerberos is critised for scalibility, not due to the number of
people in a realm, but as inter-realm requires bi-lateral key management,
using secret key technology. This is not scalible to global info systems.
Otherwise Kerberos is great for an organisation. :-)
--
regards
Gary Gaskell
DSTC
Cooperative Research Centre for Distributed Systems Technology
Queensland University of Technology
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