Kerberos in the handbook

Tillman Hodgson tillman at seekingfire.com
Wed Aug 20 16:20:35 UTC 2003


On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 06:01:33PM +0200, Martin Heinen wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 11:00:31AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> 
> > What exactly do we do with the kerberos information in the handbook?
> > I have a Kerberos5 document which is nearly complete, should it:
> > 
> > o Be a new chapter?
> > o Be added as a second part to the current KerberosIV information?
> > o Should I place it in the Security chapter, move the current section
> >   to KerberosIV, add a note that Kerberos5 is only in FreeBSD 5.1 and
> >   beyond?
> > 
> > I'm leaning toward the last option but would like a few general
> > comments first.
> 
> Kerberos V5 is the recommended version nowadays.

True.

> The new Kerberos V5 chapter should replace the
> existing chapter.  We could add a subsection
> describing the differences to Kerberos V4 (there
> shouldn't be many).

I wouldn't want to maintain differences spread through the V5 chapter -
once pre-5.1 versions are no longer supported it's easier to drop the
existing V4 section that to re-write the V5 section.

There are folks out there with existing V4 realms that they need to
connect to (as opposed to building a new V5 realm from scratch), and for
that the existing V4 chapter could be kept untouched.

-T


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