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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
Subject: Re: Kerberos with multi-platforms !
Message-ID: <6911@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 15 Mar 91 16:27:25 GMT
References: <9103151445.AA17901@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Organization: MIT Project Athena, Cambridge MA
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In our efforts to bring the Athena environment to vendor platforms,
we've ported Kerberos to a variety of hardware, including the PS/2
(under AIX), A/UX 2.0, and the IBM RS6000.  Kerberos also exists
for the Sun 4 platform; I've successfully used Stanford's Kerberos
binaries (accessible via AFS) to interoperate with Athena.

Getting the Kerberos client libraries and applications to run
on new hardware is usually not much more difficult than saying
"make", once you've made some decisions about word size and
endian-ness.  I've no experience getting the server code working
on a different machine, and I've heard that there are relatively
more minor problems in this area, simply because all the Kerberos
servers at Athena are MicroVAXes.  On the other hand, if you're
integrating a new platform into an existing environment, you're
usually first interested in the client side of things.

The tightly-integrated applications which have been modified to
use Kerberos such as rlogin/rlogind require source to those
programs, of course.

-- 
Steve Dyer
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dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu