[428] in Kerberos
Re: RPC for communicating with Kerberos
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Steiner)
Wed Jul 6 07:57:55 1988
To: Mike Kazar <kazar+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, dachurch@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 05 Jul 88 22:16:54 -0400.
From: Jennifer Steiner <steiner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Actually the non-idempotent Kerberos operations are done via
a different protocol, which is missing, you're right. It's
being re-written.
The server is called the "admin server" and the clients which
interface with it are "kpasswd" and "kadmin", with the obvious
functionality. In addition, our "register" program talks to
the admin server in order to allocate a user name for a new
user and set the initial password.
Doug Church is designing the new admin server and should have
specs to post soon.
I would like to see some RPC system used for both the admin server and
the authentication server. I believe Bill Sommerfeld is looking at
using Apollo's RPC with Kerberos (Bill?) and it would be interesting
to compare theirs and CMU's.
Jennifer
