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Re: 4.4 kpasswd screw (WAS Re: CNS clients and BSDI servers)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garrett A. Wollman)
Sat Apr 8 15:40:27 1995

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 8 Apr 1995 19:23:17 GMT
From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman)

In article <3m4j9q$bha@news.cloud9.net>,
Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@cloud9.net> wrote:
>I do not understand a number of things about the 4.4BSD kerberos.  The 
>primary one is why it doesn't use the "right" port for kpasswd.

Because 4.4's `kpasswd' is something invended by, for, and at
Berkeley, and has no relation whatsoever to `kadmin' (which either
didn't exist or wasn't being distributed at the time that the Berkeley
fols were starting to integrate the rest of Kerberos).

>The absolutely most perplexing one, however, is that it's missing the
>source to kpasswdd!

4.4-Lite /did/ ship with this code in it (I know because I was the one
who removed it from FreeBSD 2.0).  FreeBSD does contain a modified
version of Athena's `kpasswd' which is integrated with the Berkeley
`passwd' program, and which may be of some use to you on the BSDi
platform.

-GAWollman

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