From owner-freebsd-security Mon Apr 8 11: 4:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from d188h80.mcb.uconn.edu (d188h80.mcb.uconn.edu [137.99.188.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80D6137B404 for ; Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:04:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 9180 invoked by uid 1001); 8 Apr 2002 18:04:08 -0000 Message-ID: <20020408180408.9179.qmail@d188h80.mcb.uconn.edu> References: <874riov1et.wl@delta.meridian-enviro.com> <002401c1ddf7$557e84a0$13ed7ad1@unstable.org> <20020406220150.C2867@rain.macguire.net> <3CB18F66.1060304@boneyard.lawrence.ks.us> In-Reply-To: <3CB18F66.1060304@boneyard.lawrence.ks.us> From: "Peter C. Lai" To: "Stephen D. Spencer" Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Centralized authentication Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 18:04:08 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org the kerberos implementation by MS is completely backwards compatible with MIT-kerberos. This has been true for the past few years actually (and from personal experience) Stephen D. Spencer writes: > Benjamin Krueger wrote: > >> >> I'd highly suggest the oft-little understood but incredibly deserving >> Kerberos. I truly believe that if it were better documented and >> understood by >> the masses of administrators out there, it would blow away current >> network >> authentication systems. Heck, Microsoft used it to totally revitalize >> their >> network authentication scheme to enormous benefit. Sadly, they then broke >> it >> for anyone who isn't them. >> > > Though this is not from personal experience, I believe that K5 has been > 'adjusted' to cohabitate correctly with the M$ implementation. > > -Stephen > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message ----------- Peter C. Lai University of Connecticut Dept. of Residential Life | Programmer Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology | Undergraduate Research Assistant http://cowbert.2y.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message