Kerberos Questions
2007-12-25 2:16:00
I was recently looking over Kerberos and one question
lead to another and I'd like to see if I could get
some assistance.
When you enable Kerberos, does it work like NIS, where
when you logon, you authenticated via kerberos and
therefore have a ticket when you land at the prompt,
or do you logon to Solaris first, and then logon again
to Kerberos. If the former, doesn't this blow away
the old theory that you can only have 8 characters for
a password? One of the docs stated that Kerberos
passwords are from 8-255 characters.
Do you really need to run OpenSSH anymore. Doesn't
the Kerberos telnet daemon running with security do
the same thing? Same question for ftp and scp?
Do you need IPSec anymore, or will Kerberos provide
for a form of network layer security?
Has anyone ever put in a feature request to move the
buffer size of the crypt function from 8 to something
larger, or is this a mute point.
Btw, for those that don't know, the Secure LDAP client
from Solaris 9 has been backported to Solaris 8.
thanks for any responses,
will summarize all of them,
alan
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