[6259] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos on Linux (was KERBEROS?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Sat Nov 18 20:20:23 1995
To: dmtech@magi.com (Andrew Mileski)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "18 Nov 1995 22:57:52 GMT."
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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 20:07:17 EST
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
>>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Mileski <dmtech@magi.com> writes:
Andrew> Jonathan Kamens (jik@jik.datasrv.co.il) wrote:
>> Have you ever worked with the MIT or Cygnus Kerberos code base?
>> I have, extensively, including porting it to Linux. If all
>> you're basing your comments on is anecdotal evidence, perhaps
>> you should refrain from commenting.
Andrew> My comments were based on past experience with Kerberos
Andrew> under Linux and other unices (notably SCO, Xenix, AIX,
Andrew> Solaris, Ultrix and QNX).
Andrew> Your statements don't instill much hope when you say it
Andrew> works, but this doesn't, or this can be patched,
Andrew> etc. Sounds like the Kerberos I've grown to hate (ie. it
Andrew> is buggy no matter how you look at it). I'm sure the
Andrew> Kerberos standard works...now if somebody could just
Andrew> implement it right.
I can't help but wonder what version of Kerberos you were
using. The MIT Kerberos4 code is, IMHO, not worth using. (I would
strongly advise using Cygnus's CNS product for v4 realms).
Yes, Kerberos 5 does have bugs; it's beta code. However, with
a few minor changes, beta5 compiles easily on AIX, Solaris, SunOS,
OSF,Linux and Ultrix (among others). The current (unreleased) MIT
source tree compiles without modification on AIX, Linux, NetBSD,
Solaris, OSF and Ultrix, and may compile without modification on other
platforms. (There are a few minor bugs with SunOS, and some major
work that needs to be done for telnetd and rlogind for Irix).
Andrew> If you are happy using Kerberos, then bully for you.
Andrew> -- Andrew E. Mileski --
Andrew> -------------------------------------------------------
Andrew> Dark Matter Technologies Inc. - Ottawa Ontario, Canada!
Andrew> mailto:dmtech@magi.com http://www.magi.com/~dmtech/
