[5497] in Kerberos
Re: But our salesman said...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Art Houle)
Fri Jul 14 09:02:08 1995
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 1995 08:38:56 -0400 (EDT)
From: Art Houle <houle@acns.fsu.edu>
To: Joe Beiter <jwb@wilbur.hhisland.com>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <3u3n62$qbs@wilbur.hhisland.com>
On 13 Jul 1995, Joe Beiter wrote:
> Date: 13 Jul 1995 14:03:46 -0400
> From: Joe Beiter <jwb@wilbur.hhisland.com>
> To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
> Subject: But our salesman said...
>
>
>
> We're an ISP that is currently using Cisco and xtacacs to athenticate
> and track usage of our customers (tacacs produces a wtmp).
>
> [DEC Alphastation 200s osf/1 3.2]
>
> The rest of the company is 'pro-dec' and it was decided we would purchase
> a Xyplex (dec friendly) router over a larger Cisco. The Xyplex sales rep
> claims that they can do the same thing as cisco/tacacs does using Kerberos.
>
Almost the same. We are using kerberos v4.
> I've been screwing with Kerberos b5 v5 (only one that would compile on osf/1)
> for about two weeks now and I still can't get past the ssclient test
> (even after trying the posted patches... having the same problem guys)
>
> and even still, if I do get it to work I don't really see what I'll do next
> to track logins and logouts from the Xyplex router. Login seems pretty
> easy but I dont' see how I'm going to produce wtmp-type data (ie: login and
> logout plus time).
The xyplex will log connects and disconnects, bytes in, out, time, etc.
We wrote some perrl scripts to make that somewhat useful, cause the
output is pretty mindless. The logging is to and through syslogd on a
unix box. I don't know what to do with a Dec/vms box.
>
> Can anyone tell me if I'm getting jerked around by a Sales rep seducing our
> DEC manager?
>
Be aware, that you will need premium support in order to get MANUALS or
even a hello from the tech helpline. So be sure to add the to the $$ for
eval.
> Thanks,
>
> - JoeB
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