From senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!eichin Sun May 2 04:57:17 EDT 1993 Article: 39677 of comp.os.linux Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!eichin From: eichin@athena.mit.edu (Mark W. Eichin) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Intel, the Pentium and Linux Date: 2 May 1993 08:55:23 GMT Organization: MIT SIPB/Cygnus Support Lines: 32 Message-ID: <1s029rINNkm3@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <1993Apr27.220743.9409@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <1993Apr28.091739.6121@swan.pyr> NNTP-Posting-Host: hodge.mit.edu Summary: kerberos is available Keywords: kerberos In article willmore@iastate.edu (David Willmore) writes: >Maybe you shouldn't use the unsupported subsets? Better yet, don't use >the Unix password system at all. We don't. We use kerberos like OSF/1 >does. That's modern unix. Does linux have kerberos? Don't expect it >too soon. >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- >willmore@iastate.edu | "Death before dishonor" | "Better dead than greek" | >David Willmore | "Ever noticed how much they look like orchids? Lovely!" | >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, if you're using Kerberos for *local* access to the machine, you'd better know what you're doing (ie, the local machine has to have a srvtab of some kind to verify the response to the kdc...) That said, I've ported Kerberos 4 to Linux (as part of my work at Cygnus Support.) It wasn't particularly difficult, mostly because I had already done a lot of work to clean up the POSIX branches of the code. I've talked to Peter McDonald about putting out a Kerberos SLS disk, but haven't quite worked out the export issues. We are, however, *using* it at MIT (and Cygnus.) If MIT were ever planning another Kerberos 4 release (4p10 is expected to have been the final) I'd make sure they included the Linux changes... we'll see what happens with Kerberos 5. For comparison, it took me *far* longer to port Kerberos (including secure and encrypted rlogin) to SPARC-Solaris 2 and to the latest SCO unix than it did to port it to Linux. _Mark_ MIT Student Information Processing Board Cygnus Support ps. I don't often have time to keep up with c.o.l so if you want me to read comments on this thread please email them to me. Thanks. _Mark_