Problem with setting up Kerberos server

Jeffrey Altman jaltman2 at nyc.rr.com
Wed Dec 3 00:22:56 EST 2003


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sam wrote:

> 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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