[6888] in Kerberos
Re: Using Kerberos with a PC client
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Allan Bjorklund)
Thu Mar 14 16:30:57 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 96 20:56:51 GMT
From: allan@umich.edu (Allan Bjorklund)
In article <4i7bjr$1mpk@troy.la.locus.com>, hyc@troy.la.locus.com (Howard Chu) wrote:
=>In article <2.2.32.19960306190107.006bd2c0@indy>,
=>Brian Schimpf <schimpf@gradient.com> wrote:
=>%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.
=>
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=>% 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.
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=>Currently Kerberos is only integrated into the Win 3.1
=>client, although the DLL and Manager app work fine on Win '95.
=>--
=>Howard Chu Principal Member of Technical Staff
=>hyc@locus.com PLATINUM technology, Locus Laboratory
There is free version of a Win32 (i.e., NT and 95) native version of
the Kerberos client piece available from:
ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umch.edu/win/Kerb95
Examine the readme file for details.
This is currently a beta with only the DLL and ticket manager binaries
and skeleton API documentation.
