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Re: Many questions on implementing kerberos

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Kovara)
Mon Mar 25 08:02:12 1996

To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 10:50:51 GMT
From: joek@CyberSafe.com (Joe Kovara)

leonardi@dpud.DIALix.oz.au (Ian Leonard) wrote:
>This means each user now has a Unix password, NT Password and Oracle password.

>Can we use Kerberos to maintain a single user accounts database for all 
>platforms ?  I have been looking for various prodcuts to help us and
>have come across the DEC product (DEC Athena I think) that will allow
>us to run Kerberos on the HP and DEC Unix, Oracle have a product (Secure
>Network Services ?) and I understand Microsoft is doing some work on this.

Oracle's uses CyberSafe's Challenger product with SNS to provide
Kerberos 5 authentication; all of CyberSafe's supported Unix systems
include an integrated login (those include HP-UX but not DEC Unix); NT
support (for login) is presently in alpha.  That's almost everything.


Then again, you don't have to get it all from one vendor.  I assume
DEC can provide you with the DEC Unix login.  And other vendors may
have other pieces.  (The Oracle SNS/Kerberos 5 part is presently
available only from CyberSafe.)   All of the parts *should*
interoperate. 

Joe Kovara / Director of Engineering / CyberSafe Corp.
1605 NW Sammamish Road, Suite 310 / Issaquah, WA 98027
joek@cybersafe.com / 206-391-6000 (phone) / 206-391-0508 (fax)


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