[861] in bugtraq
Re: Always about ATHENA Wide ....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jweiss@MIT.EDU)
Tue Jan 31 15:14:32 1995
From: jweiss@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 13:02:23 -0500
To: security@ncub1.polito.it (Davide Melchiorre)
Cc: bugtraq@fc.net
In-Reply-To: [852]
To validate an user somewhere should be the encrypted passwords ..
where ? ..
Kerberos is used to authenticate users when they log into an Athena
workstation. It is a distributed security system that does not
require that each user have an encrypted password stored on every
workstation. I would suggest that you read up on some of the packages
used by Athena. Hesiod and Kerberos would be a good start. You can
find papers on these that were written for the 1988 winter Usenix
conference via ftp from athena-dist.mit.edu in pub/ATHENS/usenix. You
can also find source distributions on athena-dist, but remember that
US export restrictions may apply to some of the things you find.
Jonathon Weiss
jweiss@mit.edu
Just in case you were wondering:
Project Athena, Athena, Athena MUSE, Discuss, Hesiod, Kerberos, Moira,
OLC, X Window System, and Zephyr are trademarks of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT). No commercial use of these trademarks
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