Kerberos to drop support for kadmind4 and v5passwdd

[Sam Hartman]

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MIt is announcing the end-of-life for two Kerberos administration
services.  These services will continue to be provided in the 1.3.x
versions of MIT Kerberos, but will not appear in future versions of
Kerberos.


The first service is the v5passwdd service.  This service allows
certain old terminal servers to change their password.  When we asked
for feedback from the Kerberos community, no one was using this
service who could not use the more modern Kerberos password changing
protocol to accomplish the same goal.  The corresponding v5passwd
client will also be end-of-lifed.  The more modern kpasswd client and
kadmin utility will continue to be supported.

In addition, MIT is announcing the end-of-life for the kadmind4
server.  This server provided backward compatibility so that Kerberos
4 administration clients could submit administration requests to a MIT
Kerberos 5 administration server.  Because of the code quality and the
relative scarcity of version 4 administration clients, we will no
longer support this functionality beyond the 1.3.x versions of
Kerberos.


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