Implementaion of KCM funtionality for MIT Kerberos

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Fri Nov 11 13:52:53 EST 2005


Rajasekaran Nagarajan <rnagarajan at novell.com> writes:

> We are planning to implement KCM (present in Heimdal) functionality for
> MIT.

> About KCM...
> Luke Howard added KCM (Kerberos Credential Manager) to Heimdal.
> KCM is a credential caching daemon that provides these features,
> - Acquiring the tickets for the system (workstation) principal during
> the start-up
> - Changing the system principal password
> - Automatically renewing the tickets

> I would appreciate your comments on having this for MIT.

Not that this is completely the same thing, but you may want to take a
look at:

    <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/kstart/>

before doing a lot of work and see if that solves your immediate problem.

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


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