[6556] in Kerberos
Announcing an implementation of Kerberos for Windows95/NT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kerb95@umich.edu)
Wed Jan 31 07:38:36 1996
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 96 17:31:36 GMT
From: kerb95@umich.edu
Reply-To: kerb95@umich.edu
Hello,
There is now available for anonymous FTP an implementation of
Kerberos for Windows 95 and NT.
You may obtain the beta DLLs, LIBs, header files, and unfinished
documentation (postscript), along with a ticket manager (also beta)
from us via the following URL:
ftp://terminator.rs.itd.umich.edu/win/Kerb95
The source will be made available once the final release has been
issued.
This implementation of Kerberos does not follow the MIT API, nor
does it use any of of the MIT source. It is strictly Win32 code that
takes advantage of Win32 features found in Windows 95 and NT. (Win32s
on Windows 3.1, 3.11, and 3.11WFG is not supported.)
Here is a short list of features:
Uses the Windows Registry for Kerberos information.
Allows multiple identities to be used simultaneously.
Supports password changing.
Allows selective deletion of tickets.
The ticket cache is kept in a memory mapped file and not
stored on disk.
'Canned' dialogs that applications may use for authentication,
password changing, and host/realm modifications.
Unicode and ASCII versions of each API call that takes a string
parameter.
Also the API calls have a version parameter to specify which version
of Kerberos to use. But at this time only Kerberos version 4 is
recognized. Version 5 support will be added later.
To insure that the final release is complete, we would like to hear
comments on this API. Please feel free to send them to
kerb95@umich.edu.
Thank You.
