[177] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Tue Jul 30 20:33:14 1991
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 91 20:32:48 -0400
From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: root@bulldog.wes.army.mil
Cc: nabors@wes.army.mil
Cc: krb5-bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: root@bulldog.wes.army.mil's message of Tue, 30 Jul 91 15:56:27 -0500,
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 91 15:56:27 -0500
From: root@bulldog.wes.army.mil
I am getting ready to install Kerberos version 5 on my RS6000.
Do I have to have version 4 before I can install version 5?
Are there major changes that has to be done to my machine prior to
installing kerberos v5?
No, you do not need to have Kerberos version 4 before you bould or
install Kerberos version 5. However, please be aware that Kerberos
version 5 is still in Beta test, and as such is not really ready for
production use. For example, the Kerberos admin server, which is used
for remote administration of the Kerberos database and which is also
used to allow users to change their passwords (without requiring an
administrator to login to the Kerberos KDC and manually changing it for
them) has not been written yet. In addition, the docuemntation for
Kerberos version 5 is spotty at best. I stronly suggest that you
retrieve the Kerberos version 4 documentation and read them before
trying to tackle Kerberos version 5.
However, if you are willling to try to build and install Kerberos V5,
and send us back bug reports and/or patches, it would be greatly
appreciated. If you can donate time to write some documentation or some
code, that would be even more appreciated.
FYI, the Kerberos version 4 documentation is available by anonymous FTP
from ATHENA-DIST.MIT.EDU, in pub/kerberos and pub/kerberos/doc.
- Ted
