[7836] in Kerberos
Re: Advice about kerberos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lawrence MacIntyre)
Thu Aug 22 08:40:47 1996
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 08:28:42 -0400
From: Lawrence MacIntyre <lpz@nautique.epm.ornl.gov>
To: rick@n-link.com
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Rick Gibson wrote:
>
> Hubbard L. Helm wrote:
> >
> > My company is looking into kerberos we have solaris 2.5, Aix 4.2, Irix 6.2,
> > SCO. I am looking for general advice and experiences. Is the commerical or
> > public domain the way to go. Thanks for the help
>
> Hubbard,
>
> I decided to use Kerberos on and Irix5.3 system and found that getting
> it to work was a nightmare. But once running, it has been a very good
> solution. The only problem now is that vendors, Cisco, Ascend and even
> Xyplex are moving away from Kerberos and towards Radius (For now). I
> would suggest to really look at what you need the Security for and look
> into all possibilities. This was not meant to scare you away from
> Kerberos but, as I purchase new equipment I am having to use other
> protocols in addition to Kerberos because it isn't supported.
--
Actually, cisco just added support for Kerberos in IOS version 11.1.
Lawrence
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