[4891] in Kerberos
Re: What is the status of kerberised ftp?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Thu Mar 30 14:07:34 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 30 Mar 1995 18:54:03 GMT
From: jik@cam.ov.com (Jonathan I. Kamens)
In article <9503301607.AA02042@ra.i88.isc.com>, prem@npr.legent.com (Prem Tirilok) writes:
|> I have a draft version of the RFC that I'm writing for Kerberos V5 FTP.
|> This is not yet in Internet-Draft standard.
|>
|> I've also implemented this design but that software is the property
|> of my employer....so I can't release it. Sometime in the near future
|> I might port it to a generic version and make that available.
Why do Kerberos 5 authentication in FTP directly instead of through GSS-API?
Any FTP implementation using the GSS-API FTP authentication type instead of
using Kerberos 5 directly is easily portable to other GSS-API mechanisms, and
a free Kerberos 5 GSS-API mechanism already exists.
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Jonathan Kamens | OpenVision Technologies, Inc. | jik@cam.ov.com
