Wiki?

[Michael B Allen]

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:27:33 -0500
Jeff Blaine <jblaine at kickflop.net> wrote:

> My strong inclination would be to see it all in one spot.
> IMO, the History and Protocol are pretty well documented
> already.
> 
> * History
> * Protocol
> * Implementations
> *** MIT
> ***** Notes!
> *** Heimdal
> ****** Notes!
> *** Microsoft
> ****** Notes!
> * 3rd Party Information
> *** GSSAPI Notes
> *** Kerberos-related PAM modules
> ****** Russ Alberry's
> ****** Red Hat's Sourceforge version (1.x)
> ****** The "other" Red Hat version (2.x)
> *** ETC ETC
> * Some other topic
> ...

Well you could try to create a page in Wikipedia. Just make sure you
call it something like off-the-beaten-path like Kerberos_Notes or
Kerberos_Supplemental so that it's not confused with real "pedia" type
articles. And make sure you have a local copy in case one of the more
religious moderators kills it.

However, finding a host is a minor detail. Writing good content is the
hard part. If you do a shallow review or you're just trying to "organize"
existing documentation and think that the experts will pop in and correct
it and fill in the details, don't waste your time. Ain't gonna happen.

Personally, if I were doing this, I would start by watching the lists
and take notes locally with good detailed explainations of common
issues. After I had 5 or 10 good detailed focused topics I would put up
a very simple HTML page and use it to find a host.

For example, someone had a problem that resulted in a long thread on
the mod_auth_kerb list. They had used the /crypto DES-CBC-MD5 option
to MS' ktpass.exe but WITHOUT /DesOnly. So the keytab had a DES key but
the account didn't have the "Use DES encryption types for this account"
flag on. The result was the "Failed to find ... in keytab" error because
the enctypes didn't match. That is the level of detail you need to make
your wiki worthwhile.

Mike

> Michael B Allen wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:12:06 -0500
> > Jeff Blaine <jblaine at kickflop.net> wrote:
> > 
> >> Is there a Wiki for Kerberos info?  It seems to me that it
> >> would be awful useful for keeping tabs on quite a bit of
> >> information that is buried in these mailing list archives.
> > 
> > Protocol oriented stuff would be ok in the wireshark.org
> > wiki. Historical/theoretical stuff would be ok at wikipedia.  Heimdal was
> > talking about setting one up but I think it will be for Heimdal oriented
> > stuff.
> > 
> > Mike
> > 
> 


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