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From: philf@xymox.metaphor.com (Phil Fernandez)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kerberos
Subject: Re: kerberos application to OSI
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Date: 14 Dec 89 07:25:59 GMT
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In article <8912080934.AA11988@sytek.hls.hac.com> sytek!salzman@HPLABS.HP.COM (Michael M. Salzman) writes:
>I think that a marriage of kerberos and distributed directory/environment
>services would be well received in the corporate world, and would
>solve a real problem.

Speaking as the leader of Unix System Software Engineering at Metaphor,
we'd be *extremely* interested in a "marriage" of Kerberos and OSI
distributed directory services.  It will solve a real problem for us.

We will be exploring this concept over the next several months.  I'd
be interested in exchanging mail with other interested folks.

pmf

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