Problem with setting up Kerberos server

sam samwun at hgcbroadband.com
Mon Dec 1 22:40:47 EST 2003


Thanks for the reply, do you know how to test Kerberos connection from a
remote host eg. Windows?
I have configured Kerberos V server in OpenBSD 3.4, but don't know how to
test it, the infor hermeil does not tell.

thanks
sam

> >
> >Those instructions seem to be encouraging you to set up a new Kerberos
> >IV realm.  You should consider setting up Kerberos V instead.
> >Kerberos IV is old, no longer developed and has many security
> >problems.
>
> 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.
>
> >I do not have experience with either version of Kerberos under
> >OpenBSD.
>
> MIT's krb5-1.3.1.tar.gz compiles and runs on OpenBSD with just minor
> changes to the source.  I've adopted the practice of compiling it
> with static libraries to avoid namespace clashes with the Kerberos V
> libraries from Heimdal.  Although workrounds for these clashes are
> possible.
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