[LON-CAPA-dev] kerberos on rh7.3

[Scott Harrison]

Hi Martin and Guy,

Meandering e-mail follows....

Thanks for the kerberos update.  I will test out the latest international
kerberos source (Heimdal, Cygnus, etc).  From what I see, they claim
compatibility with both kerberos 5 now in addition to kerberos 4...latest
version from Heimdal is September 2001.

(Historical note: despite Athena and MIT being plastered all over
 the LON-CAPA-krb4 code, the encryption really was from Sweden:

  usr/local/krb4/info/kth-krb.info:
  This is an attempt at documenting the Kerberos 4 distribution from
  Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan (the Royal Institute of Technology in
  Stockholm, Sweden). This distribution is based on eBones, but has been
  improved in many ways. It is more portable, and several new features
  have been added. It should run on any reasonably modern unix-like
  system.

  eBones ripped out all American-written encryption, etc... thus
  MIT and Athena stuff that remains is just a outer covering)

Ideally, password mechanisms can maybe have some level of testing inside
loncom/build/system_dependencies/.

I'm just quasi-pseudo-overjoyed that:
* RedHat and Mandrake are probably shipping MIT Kerberos overseas
* and that anyone can innocently visit any rpm repository, first DOWNLOAD the
  krb5-server RPM, and only THEN read:
     Export of software employing encryption from the United States of
     America may require a specific license from the United States
     Government.  It is the responsibility of any person or organization
     contemplating export to obtain such a license before exporting.

Regards,
Scott

> Hi Scott,
> 
> it's been a few months after I compiled MIT kerberos from source.
> One of the configuration options is whether you require compatibility
> with version 4. I decided against it (because we do not have krb4 on campus),
> but I am sure that it is in the source code.
> 
> Regards,
> Martin
> 
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> 
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:52:39PM -0400, Scott Harrison wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I notice (thanks to another developer and user) that Swedish Kerberos
> > version 4 is not installed automatically for RH7.3
> > doc/install/redhat7.3/install.pl.
> > 
> > I suggest that (in keeping with our new philosophy toward Samba
> > and Appleshares):
> > 
> > * we do not automatically install kerberos
> > * we provide clear instructions on the install.lon-capa.org site regarding
> >   how to:
> >            configure
> >            compile
> >            install (probably continue to provide the LON-CAPA-krb4 RPM)
> >   Kerberos version 4.
> > 
> > The Kerberos version 5 guys at some point were talking about creating
> > compatibility with the version 4 protocol (inside version 5).
> > 
> > Anybody know if this ever happened?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Scott
> > 
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