[2143] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: GSS-API/Kerberos Library for Windows NT/95
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Mon Dec 23 17:01:46 1996
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 17:01:41 -0500
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: Ashish Bisarya <ashish@syl.nj.nec.com>
Cc: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, ashish@syl.nj.nec.com, krbdev@MIT.EDU,
ashish@syl.nj.nec.com
In-Reply-To: Ashish Bisarya's message of Mon, 23 Dec 1996 13:30:16 -0500,
<199612231830.NAA04177@syl.syl.nj.nec.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 13:30:16 -0500
From: Ashish Bisarya <ashish@syl.nj.nec.com>
So far, on Windows we have been testing with OpenVision's Authenticate
1.3 product which supports Kerberos v5 beta 5. Their product contains
a GSS-API/Kerberos library implementation for Windows NT and 95.
Note: it's not "supports" Kerberos V5 beta 5, but more accurately is "is
based on" Kerberos V5 beta 5.
>If you take the ALPHA1 snapshot, and compile the GSSAPI32.DLL file, it
>will compile w/o errors. However, the GSSAPI test program exits
>silently, without giving any error indication or GPF, however, the
>probability is better than 50% than the problem is actually in the test
>program. That's why we didn't bother to inclucde the DLL.
>
What is the difference between your DLL and OpenVision's Windows DLL?
It's a more updated code base. Among other things, it supports the
final protocol specification defined for the Kerberos V5 GSSAPI
mechanism as defined in RFC-1964 (as well as the older, interim protocol
supported by older systems).
NT support hasn't been a primary priority at MIT until very recently, so
we may still have some porting bugs that we need to work out....
- Ted
