[4208] in Kerberos
Re: Sites using Kerberos V5 in production (summary)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Nessett)
Thu Nov 17 11:15:51 1994
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 08:01:28 -0800
From: Danny.Nessett@Eng.Sun.COM (Dan Nessett)
To: jon@cam.ov.com
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
> From jon@cam.ov.com Thu Nov 17 07:56:18 1994
> To: nessett@Eng
> Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
> Subject: Re: Sites using Kerberos V5 in production (summary)
>
>
> There seems to be four sites currently using Kerberos V5 in
> production : 1) MIT,
>
> Ted or Jeff may correct me, but I don't believe MIT is using V5 in
> production. They are running a slave server (perhaps the main KDC by
> now) but most of their accesses are V4, perhaps via V5's backward
> compatibility. V4 met most of MIT's needs and they have such a large
> installed based (including Mac's and PC's) that migration is a
> significant cost.
>
> So other than National Labs and Universities, the number of sites
> using Kerberos V5 in production seems rather small.
>
> While there is evidence to support that conclusion and I've done
> similar surveys over the years, I have come to really doubt the ask
> around or ask the mailing list methodology. I think that there are a
> lot of users of technology like Kerberos out there who do not read
> these lists or who do not respond if they do. I think those users
> dominate in terms of numbers. When I was with MIT I was always
> frustrated by the vendors and users who would pick up Kerberos but
> never talk to us, much lest respond to a mailing list query.
>
> -- Jon
>
Yes, you're probably right. I received an email from someone at Cybersafe
that suggests some of the banks are using Kerberos V5 in production, but
no specifics. Do you have any hard data on sites using Kerberos V5 in
production?
Dan
