Problem with setting up Kerberos server

Tillman Hodgson tillman at seekingfire.com
Mon Dec 1 11:03:51 EST 2003


On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:05:58PM +0000, Dennis Davis wrote:
> Kerberos IV code has been removed from the latest version of
> OpenBSD, OpenBSD3.4 which was released a month ago.  Previous
> versions of OpenBSD included Kerberos IV code from:
> 
> http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-krb/
> 
> But Kerberos V code from:
> 
> http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/
> 
> has also been present in recent versions of OpenBSD.  If you're
> starting from scratch, you would be much better forgetting about
> Kerberos IV and going to Kerberos V.

And if the original poster would like to use Heimdal krb5, the FreeBSD
Handbook instructions at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kerberos5.html
might be useful.

> MIT's krb5-1.3.1.tar.gz compiles and runs on OpenBSD with just minor
> changes to the source.

And, of course, the MIT documentation is available online (and is quite
good). The original poster could find non-version-IV instructions there
as well.

-T


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