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Re: DCE and Kerberos V5

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harold Lockhart)
Wed Sep 25 14:09:41 1996

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 12:39:29 -0700
From: Harold Lockhart <hal@platsol.com>
Reply-To: hal@platsol.com

David McNab wrote:
>      Is it possible to configure the Kerberos V5 BSD
> client/server pairs -- the rcmd's, telnet(d), ftp(d),
> and so on -- to work in a DCE 1.1 environment?

The DCE Security Server will act as a Kerberos Server.  OSF does not
"officially" support it, but many people are currently doing it.

There are some limitations.  DCE does not support the Kerberos options
field.  Using Kerberos means you lose some DCE identity information,
such as groups.

Hal
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