[6832] in Kerberos
Re: Using Kerberos with a PC client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Schimpf)
Wed Mar 6 14:22:17 1996
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 1996 14:01:07 -0500
To: Mike Mummert <mikem@informs.com>
From: Brian Schimpf <schimpf@gradient.com>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
At 09:50 AM 3/6/96 -0600, you wrote:
>I have some questions about Kerberos and didn't know where to go, so I found
>this address and thought I'd give it a try.
>
>I'm new at Internet security, and in some research I came across Kerberos.
>In my readings it seems that Kerberos is for use strictly between more
>advanced platforms such as UNIX. I am searching for a secure, software
>handled, authentication process such as Kerberos for authenticating remote
>PC users who telnet into our systems (AIX and LINUX). I can't find anywhere
>that Kerberos supports a PC as the client.
Kerberos is not limited to UNIX although it was first done on UNIX.
There are Kerberos implementations available for Windows PCs.
>Is it possible? If not is there
>anything available that works similarly (I know about the comercially
>available, and very expensive programs, but cost is an issue).
I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "commercially available and
expensive." If you are looking for a freeware implementation of Kerberos
for Windows you probably won't find it. Someone would have had to port the
Kerberos distribution to Windows and so they probably aren't interested in
giving it away. If you really can't buy the software you could conceivably
get the MIT distribution of Kerberos and port it to the PC yourself, but I
can't see how that would be "cheaper" than buying the product from someone
who's already done that and will support it. (Keep in mind that I work for
a company that provides a commercial version of a standard middleware
product, in my case DCE, so I have a bias.)
Brian
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