[2405] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Password changing protocols
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Wed Jul 2 17:11:23 1997
To: krbdev@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 17:09:51 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
As I see it, there are now three different protocols to change passwords
in V5:
- The "v5passwdd" protocol, used by v5passwd/v5paswdd and Annex
terminal servers.
- The massive "GSS-API RPC" protocol, used by the MIT kpasswd and kadmin.
- The Cygnus "krb5_change_password()" protocl, used by the Cygnus kadmind
and all of the Cygnus utilities.
There was talk at one time about implementing a "lightweight" password
changing protocol. Is that still being considered? The reason I ask
is because I figure I'm going to have to add the Cygnus protocol to our
admin server to support people who are using Cygnus clients, but I'd
hate to end up with _four_ completely separate password-changing protocols.
--Ken
