[7189] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos and JAVA
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Kamm)
Thu May 2 02:04:06 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 02 May 1996 01:11:25 -0400
From: jwk3@acpub.duke.edu (Jay Kamm)
In article <4m9667$3l9a@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, deinc@ibm.net (DeScribe,
Inc.) wrote:
<snip>
> This may be a closed loop situation with no practical answer other than to
> require the user to load "native code" on the workstation. If that is
the only
> way kerberos can be implemented for JAVA, its widespread acceptance will be
> limited for Web apps.
>
> Could I get some comments?
>
> Jim Lennane
I disagree - the best situation would be to have each client
workstation pre-configured with Kerberos for most if not
all network traffic, and have JAVA query the OS for
ticket/realm/etc. information. Even on my mac, I have
kerberized telnet, zephyr notes, and Eudora, and that's
without much effort...
The last thing I'd want to do is put the Kerberos code itself
within Java... if the system handles the authentication
for Java, the applet code should be much easier - just use
the system hooks...
Of course, I could be completely wrong, and if so, it will
be pointed out immediately, I'm sure... =v)
jay
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