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Kerberos and AIX
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocklyn E. Clarke)
Mon Jun 19 14:35:02 2000
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 00 14:13:39 EDT
From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: Thomas L Yu <tlyu@MIT.EDU>
Cc: William D Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, Peter B Kelley <kelley@MIT.EDU>,
Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@MIT.EDU>
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Hello Tom,
As you may know, the Enterprise Printing Delivery Team has chosen IBM's
InfoPrint Manager (IPM) for the purpose of managing central printing. This
decision was made with the understanding that IBM is willing to kerberize
the product so that it will work with MIT's security infrastructure. They
already have a version that works in a DCE environment, so much of the
work has already been done.
IPM currently runs on both Windows NT and AIX. We have concluded that AIX is
the appropriate choice for MIT with the caveat that it will have to be
properly secured for our environment. We assumed that this would be doable
since MIT has supported Athena on the AIX platform in the past. Bill Cattey
has informed me that you currently maintain an AIX box with kerberized
software on it. Naturally this is of great interest to me. I would greatly
appreciate it if you would help me with the following:
1. What version of AIX are you running and what services have you
kerberized?
2. Can you provide kerberized resources for the AIX servers which we
need to run IPM? Our current plan calls for two AIX boxes, one in
W91 and one in E40. They will be maintained by the Administrative
Servers Services Team under Peter Kelley. I believe that Peter is
basically interested in remote login and administration. For AIX
I believe this translates to kerberized telnet and kerberized SMIT
(if such a thing exists).
3. Can you give me any guidance on how to guide IBM's IPM developers in
kerberizing IPM for our use?
I will follow up with you by phone.
Rocklyn
