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Re: NT support?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Fri Jan 17 16:07:33 1997

Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 16:06:59 -0500
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: "Jordan Greenberg" <jgreenberg@wesleyan.edu>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Jordan Greenberg's message of Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:52:20 +0000,
	<199701172052.PAA18976@mail.wesleyan.edu>

   From: "Jordan Greenberg" <jgreenberg@wesleyan.edu>
   Date: Fri, 17 Jan 1997 15:52:20 +0000

   are you guys working on (or have available) a kerberos server for NT 
   i386?

No, we're not.  Quite frankly, I don't really see the point, and I'm not
entirely convinced that NT is secure enough that I'd trust running a
Kerberos server on it.  

You can very easily run an Kerberos server on a Linux or NetBSD or
FreeBSD i386 box, though.  Then you'll even be able to use kerberized
rlogin or telnet to do secure, remote management of the Kerberos server
---- something which is NOT possible under NT at this point.

						- Ted

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