[2654] in Kerberos
Sandia's work with Kerberos 5
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn NoI Machin)
Mon Mar 29 14:11:28 1993
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 93 11:49:26 MST
From: gmachin@somnet.sandia.gov (Glenn NoI Machin)
To: jian@is.rice.edu
Cc: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU
I apologize for that first messages hopefully the
text on this one is a little better........
This is in response to the following question, which I received. I feel the
response should be seen by all.
>>
>>I am new to kerberos. Please excuse me if my question is dumb. Is the Sandia
>>V5 kerberos totally independent from MIT V5 kerberos? I ask this question
>>because I am not sure how I should install the Sandia V5 kerberos. Could you
>>please point me where I can get FAQ about the difference between MIT V5 and
>>Sandia V5 and how I can proceed installation of Sandia V5. I appreciate your
>>help. Thanks in advance.
>>
>> Jian
The Sandia distribution is based on, and is comprised mostly of the MIT
Kerberos V5 beta 2 release. It fixes some bugs and provides a more complete
set of tools for kdb5_edit and kadmind. There is a postscript file in the
distribution (SNL_MIT_Differences.ps) which documents some of the differences
between the MIT code and what we are using. We offer what we have done, not
as a replacement for what MIT offers, but as means of quickly building and
evaluating Kerberos, since the source we offer has been compiled and runs on
a wide variety of platforms. We hope this will encourage sites to look at
Kerberos and it's capabilties as a network authentication system, and promote
a wide user base so that it (v5 especially) becomes an integral part vendors
operating systems.
The MIT code is not yet production code, this is simply our way
of providing feedback of what we have done with Kerberos.
Glenn Machin - Member of Technical Staff, Sandia Natl Labs
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