kerberos capacity planning questions

[Russ Allbery]

Tim Metz <tpmetz at ucdavis.edu> writes:

> Greetings,
>
> As part of a campus working group currently evaluating Kerberos product
> options, I have been tasked with researching the following two
> requirements for MIT Kerberos:
>
> (1) Must house more than 200,000 accounts.
> (2) Must issue more than 3 tickets per second.

MIT Kerberos can trivially satisfy both of those with any reasonable
server hardware.  We were doing more authentications per second than that
on a now-obsolete Dell 1750.  We're now running the primary Kerberos
server, which handles almost all the authentications on a Dell 1950.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>