[6258] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos on Linux (was KERBEROS?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Uri Blumenthal)
Sat Nov 18 20:16:28 1995
To: dmtech@magi.com (Andrew Mileski)
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 20:02:41 -0500 (EST)
From: "Uri Blumenthal" <uri@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <48lodg$6hb@news.magi.com> from "Andrew Mileski" at Nov 18, 95 10:57:52 pm
Reply-To: uri@watson.ibm.com
Andrew Mileski writes:
> My comments were based on past experience with Kerberos under Linux and other
> unices (notably SCO, Xenix, AIX, Solaris, Ultrix and QNX).
Cygnus Kerberos-IV works practically out of box. There were a few
problems with applications (shadow password problem and ftp prob),
plus less than perfect support for SNK-004 smartcard. To patch it
wasn't a big deal, and the patches were submitted to Cygnus, so
it is likely the next release (3Q95, if I'm correct), will be
even easier to build.
Oh, and I've built it on Linux-1.3.37 and AIX-3.2.
> Your statements don't instill much hope when you say it works, but this
> doesn't, or this can be patched, etc. Sounds like the Kerberos I've grown
> to hate (ie. it is buggy no matter how you look at it). I'm sure the
> Kerberos standard works...now if somebody could just implement it right.
I daresay MIT did [plus Cygnus patches, of course, plus humble submissions
from others :-].
> If you are happy using Kerberos, then bully for you.
OK, I'm happy with it, as it works for me on my machines. Now I'm trying
to get it to cooperate with AFS.
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Regards,
Uri uri@watson.ibm.com
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