[4300] in Kerberos
Do Windows Kerberos clients exist?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Park)
Fri Dec 9 15:55:15 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 9 Dec 1994 15:12:03 -0500
From: rpark@uunet.uu.net (Richard Park)
I am looking for Windows clients that use the Kerberos protocol. It was pretty
easy to find a Mac NCSA Telnet which uses Kerberos, but NCSA doesn't even have a
official release of Telnet for Windows, let alone a Kerberized version.
Results of my research: net-dist.mit.edu has a /pub/dos/kerberos-bin directory,
but the only apps there deal with a Windows front end for applications such
as kinit. Furthermore, the applications only support Novell Lan Workplace
for now. The Winsock version will be out soon.
athena-dist.mit.edu has a directory for PC software which uses Kerberos, but
it's mainly the source code for the binaries that exist in net-dist.mit.edu.
Also, according to a README file, this code may be beta software and also
out of date.
I've been able to find source code for telnet on Unix which supports Kerberos,
but since one of my co-workers already had it, it didn't matter.
I also looked through a list describing a whole bunch of free and shareware
Winsock applications. While there are plenty of newsreaders, telnet clients,
ftp clients, and rlogin clients, not one of them mentioned anything about
supporting Kerberos.
I haven't tried the commercial vendors of Winsock applications yet, but I have
the feeling they might not support Kerberos. Also, I've focused most of my
efforts on freeware or shareware because it's more likely that the source code
will be included. Given the necessity of having to use Kerberos in the first
place, it would be nice to know for sure that there were no back doors anywhere.
I was surprised that Kerberos Windows clients were not readily available.
I don't want to start any flame wars here, but I just assumed that if it was so
easy to find Mac clients, I should be able to find at least one Windows client.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thank you.
