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Re: DCE / Kerberos Comparison

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Chinitz)
Tue Jan 10 21:56:38 1995

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 1995 21:31:20 -0500
From: jec@isoft.com (Jonathan Chinitz)

In article <3eufce$q56@paperboy.osf.org>, rsalz@osf.org (Rich Salz) wrote:

> In <3euaq7$piv@pad-thai.cam.ov.com> jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan I. Kamens)
writes:
> > you're going to
> >either have to invest a lot of effort into figuring out how to import
your MIT
> >Kerberos database into the DCE Security system (not a small feat),
> 
> Not terribly difficult.  Dump your kerberos database out in ASCII.
> Massage that into /etc/passwd format.  Use password_import.  (This might
> lose the passwords, I think, which implies the "flag day" Jonathan
> mentioned.)
> 
You will loose passwords. Big pain. It's time for someone out there to
write the MIT equivalent of the registration server for DCE...

What about keytab files - are they compatible?

(A different) Jonathan

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