[5992] in Kerberos
Re: kerberos v4 or v5 on osf 3.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dieter Muller)
Sat Oct 14 16:11:30 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 13 Oct 1995 23:19:52 GMT
From: dworkin@suod.cs.colorado.edu (Dieter Muller)
In article <44ejs2$cbe@wilbur.hargray.com>,
Joe Beiter <jwb@wilbur.hargray.com> wrote:
>
>I had problems getting that distribution to compile on our DEC Alpha osf/1 3.2
>as well. The Cygnus distribution worked though without a problem.
I've been working with the January 1995 release of the Cygnus distribution
for the last few months. Although it plays well on a homogeneous network,
there are some definite problems on multi-platform networks, particularly
when the word size varies amongst those platforms. Very soon I expect to
be sending out diffs against that release that:
- Allow DEC alphas, Sun sparcs, HP snakes, and SGI indigos to all play
well together. Playing well is defined as being able to run a KDC
on any of those architectures and having all architectures be able to
take advantage of that KDC, and being able to do encrypted sessions
(rcp and rlogin) between any combination of architectures.
- Supports multi-homed clients and KDCs.
- Supports TCP-based authentication exchanges with the KDC, so that
there is no need to allow unrestricted UDP through a firewall.
- Encrypted rdist (using the 4.4 BSD rsh/rshd modified to use the Cygnus
libraries).
I'm hoping to have these diffs out in the next month or so. We're running
most of it right now in the CS department, but it's not all quite there yet.
We've got plans for more than just the above, but this seems like a good
release point.
Since news tends to flow faster than I have the opportunity to read it,
follow ups should probably be CC'd to me directly.
Dworkin
