[31670] in Kerberos
Re: Maximum size of a Unix MIT Kerberos database backend
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Washington)
Tue Nov 10 15:19:26 2009
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:14:40 -0600
From: John Washington <jawashin@illinois.edu>
To: garnett <nicolas.greneche@gmail.com>
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Our backend was last counted at over 200,000 principals and the only notice=
able
impact (at this time) is that propagation time is around two minutes.
* garnett <nicolas.greneche@gmail.com> [2009-11-08 22:40]:
> Hi all,
>=20
> In our University I wish to centralize authentication in a Linux MIT
> KDC. This operation will spawn a KDC with about 30 000 principals. Is
> it a problem for Kerberos MIT implementation ? We will run the 1.6
> version bundled with Debian Lenny.
>=20
> Is there a need for tricks to handle such a database ?
>=20
> Thanks for your piceces of advice.
>=20
> Nico (http://blog.garnett.fr)
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John Washington Network Security Officer,=20
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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