[3769] in testers
Re: Kerberos server cut over to Kerberos V5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Braun)
Tue Jul 14 11:22:34 1998
From: Matt Braun <matt@MIT.EDU>
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ted@MIT.EDU, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:17:09 EDT."
<199807141517.LAA03278@rar.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 11:22:24 EDT
Roger,
That was an inadvertent change in 8.2 that has since been fixed.
Matt
> Ted,
>
> I notice that my tickets seem to be lasting only 8 hours instead of 10 hours.
> Is this due to this change or me going to Athena 8.2? Is there a way to
> change the default for my workstation?
>
> Roger
>
> >
> > Starting at 23:40 on Tuesday night, we began the process of migrating
> > the Kerberos server from an old, tired Decstations 5000/25 running
> > Kerberos V4 to a new Sparcstation 20 running our new Kerberos V5 code.
> > The cutover to the Kerberos server happened at 12:42am, with the new
> > Kerberos server being fully operational (password changing re-enabled)
> > at 1:30am.
> >
> > The only user-visible outages during this cutover was that password
> > changing and user registrations were disabled during 23:40pm and 1:30am,
> > and there was approximately a 20 second window when kerberos.mit.edu was
> > unavailable, and kerberos authentication requests fell back to the
> > backup slave at kerberos-1.mit.edu, adding a 1 second delay during the
> > 20 seconds when the old kerberos server was taken off the air and when
> > the new kerberos server came up on kerberos's IP address.
> >
> > Users should observe no differences between the V4 and V5 servers,
> > except that password changes will take effect for V5 ticket requests
> > much more rapidly than we did in the past.
> >
> > If there are any questions about this cutover, please let me know.
> >
> > - Ted
> >
>
>
