[222] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Just before I get started...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwards Reed)
Thu Feb 13 08:25:56 1992
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1992 05:25:18 PST
From: eer@cinops.xerox.com (Edwards Reed)
To: krb5-bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: eer@cinops.xerox.com, jlarson@parc.xerox.com
Greetings -
I had the pleasure of attending Jeff Shiller's tutorial on Kerberos
at Interop '91, and now find myself on the brink of attempting to
bring up KRB5. Before I do that, though, I thought I'd check to see
if the June distribution is the latest (surely not - the directory
change date is Dec 4!), and to see if there are any documented
gotchas of record.
First a bit of background - I brought up and used isode 6.0, and
have installed 7.0 locally. Don't have 6.8 - is that a problem,
or has anyone attempted building krb5 on isode-7.0 yet?
I've built and got running krb4, but believe I need krb5 for where
I'm trying to get to (support of strong authentication services
and encryption of certain application data streams on an enterprise
wide basis - starting with my own core network services, but building
quickly to encompass many separate administrative domains). The
RSA facilities for interdomain support, and in fact the privacy
enhanced mail, are both key features to me.
The krb4 I built isn't doing anything right now - but it's helped
me understand more of the issues I face in trying to replicate
our XNS Authentication service facilities for the TCP/IP+unix+MVS
world.
Another question, has anyone discussed replacing the dbm functions
with a commercial db product - specifically a relational or
network database system? Who might I contact?
Finally, if you cant point me to an archive of mailnotes on krb5
I'd appreciate it - or are they mixed in with the krb4 notes?
Thanks for your assistance. If I succeed in adding a distributed
database change propagation scheme (ala Clearinghouse anti-entropy)
I'll let you know.
Ed Reed
Xerox Corporation
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