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Re: Kerberos 5 Authentication with SGI xdm

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Muuss)
Fri Jul 26 05:45:20 1996

Date:     Thu, 25 Jul 96 17:10:27 EDT
From: Mike Muuss <mike@arl.mil>
To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU


> We have a number of SGI's here, and eventually we'd like to have everyone
> who uses these machines login with their Kerberos 5 password and get a Kerberos
> TGT.
> 
> Unfortunately, since they use xdm, there's not a good way of doing this
> easily.  And since SGI has their own "magic" version of XDM, compiling the
> stock X11R6 one and substituting it doesn't work (I tried, believe me).

Contact Howard Kash, <hmkash@arl.mil>, 410-278-6507.  He built a Krb5
and secure-ID capable XDM for the SGIs.  He'll be happy to share what
he has done.

	Best,
	 -Mike Muuss

	  Senior Computer Scientist
	  Ballistic Vulnerability/Lethality Division
	  Survivability and Lethality Analysis Directorate
	  The U.S. Army Research Laboratory
	  Attn: AMSRL-SL-BV
	  APG, MD  21005-5068  USA

	  My E-mail is <Mike @ ARL.MIL>
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