[6380] in Kerberos
Re: NetBSD liason
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Mullan)
Wed Dec 20 13:57:07 1995
To: Gord Matzigkeit <gord@enci.ucalgary.ca>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU, mullan_s@apollo.hp.com (Sean Mullan)
In-Reply-To: <npybsh7t6g.fsf@enci.ucalgary.ca>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 13:42:49 -0500
From: Sean Mullan <mullan_s@apollo.hp.com>
On 12 Dec 1995 16:34:31 -0700 Gord Matzigkeit wrote:
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>Hi!
>
>I just finished posting to the NetBSD tech-userlevel list to ask if
>there is somebody integrating Kerberos v5 with NetBSD.
>
>If there is already somebody with that job, I'll talk to them. If
>not, I would be happy to tackle it, since my employer is interested in
>having a fully-Kerberized NetBSD/pmax environment, and I've already
>started work on the NetBSD login program and friends.
>
>I'd like to know where the Kerberos developers stand on this issue. I
>think NetBSD is aiming for builtin Kerberos support (in all the
>appropriate clients and servers), and I was wondering what the best
>development procedure would be.
>
>There is considerable overlap in terms of the code distributed with
>Kerberos (I'm thinking of the Unix client/server code), and the code
>that is already in NetBSD.
>
>To me, it makes sense that the typical NetBSD user would simply
>download the latest Kerberos library code, set
>
>KERBEROS5 = yes
>
>in /usr/share/mk/bsd.own.mk, then recompile the appropriate NetBSD
sources.
>
>So, how can we avoid overlap and start sharing UNIX client/server
>code? Would it make sense to have a separate krb5.clients package,
>for those OSes that don't support Kerberos, and just have the
>libraries and admin stuff in a krb5.lib distribution?
>
>Thanks in advance for your replies,
>
>- --Gord
Hi Gord,
We are currently interested in krb5 versions of the BSD 4.4 remote
utilities (rlogin, rlogind, rsh, rshd). Have you done any work in
this area for NetBSD?
Thanks,
Sean
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