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several new kerberos related libraries and applications to FreeBSD:
o kgetcred(1) allows one to manually get a ticket for a particular service.
o kf(1) securily forwards ticket to another host through an authenticated
and encrypted stream.
o kcc(1) is an umbrella program around klist(1), kswitch(1), kgetcred(1)
and other user kerberos operations. klist and kswitch are just symlinks
to kcc(1) now.
o kswitch(1) allows you to easily switch between kerberos credentials if
you're running KCM.
o hxtool(1) is a certificate management tool to use with PKINIT.
o string2key(1) maps a password into key.
o kdigest(8) is a userland tool to access the KDC's digest interface.
o kimpersonate(8) creates a "fake" ticket for a service.
We also now install manpages for some lirbaries that were not installed
before, libheimntlm and libhx509.
- The new HEIMDAL version no longer supports Kerberos 4. All users are
recommended to switch to Kerberos 5.
- Weak ciphers are now disabled by default. To enable DES support (used
by telnet(8)), use "allow_weak_crypto" option in krb5.conf.
- libtelnet, pam_ksu and pam_krb5 are now compiled with error on warnings
disabled due to the function they use (krb5_get_err_text(3)) being
deprecated. I plan to work on this next.
- Heimdal's KDC now require sqlite to operate. We use the bundled version
and install it as libheimsqlite. If some other FreeBSD components will
require it in the future we can rename it to libbsdsqlite and use for these
components as well.
- This is not a latest Heimdal version, the new one was released while I was
working on the update. I will update it to 1.5.2 soon, as it fixes some
important bugs and security issues.
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@node Introduction, What is Kerberos?, Top, Top
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@c @node Introduction, What is Kerberos?, Top, Top
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@comment node-name, next, previous, up
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@chapter Introduction
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@heading What is Heimdal?
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Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. The goals are to:
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@itemize @bullet
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have an implementation that can be freely used by anyone
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@item
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be protocol compatible with existing implementations and, if not in
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conflict, with RFC 4120 (and any future updated RFC). RFC 4120
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replaced RFC 1510.
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@item
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be reasonably compatible with the M.I.T Kerberos V5 API
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@item
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have support for Kerberos V5 over GSS-API (RFC1964)
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@item
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include the most important and useful application programs (rsh, telnet,
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popper, etc.)
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@item
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include enough backwards compatibility with Kerberos V4
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@end itemize
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@heading Status
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Heimdal has the following features (this does not mean any of this
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works):
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@itemize @bullet
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@item
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a stub generator and a library to encode/decode/whatever ASN.1/DER
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stuff
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@item
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a @code{libkrb5} library that should be possible to get to work with
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simple applications
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@item
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a GSS-API library
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@item
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@file{kinit}, @file{klist}, @file{kdestroy}
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@item
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@file{telnet}, @file{telnetd}
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@item
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@file{rsh}, @file{rshd}
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@item
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@file{popper}, @file{push} (a movemail equivalent)
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@item
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@file{ftp}, and @file{ftpd}
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@item
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a library @file{libkafs} for authenticating to AFS and a program
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@file{afslog} that uses it
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@item
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some simple test programs
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@item
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a KDC that supports most things; optionally, it may also support
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Kerberos V4 and kaserver,
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@item
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simple programs for distributing databases between a KDC master and
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slaves
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@item
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a password changing daemon @file{kpasswdd}, library functions for
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changing passwords and a simple client
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@item
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some kind of administration system
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Kerberos V4 support in many of the applications.
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@end itemize
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@heading Bug reports
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If you find bugs in this software, make sure it is a genuine bug and not
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just a part of the code that isn't implemented.
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Bug reports should be sent to @email{heimdal-bugs@@h5l.org}. Please
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include information on what machine and operating system (including
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version) you are running, what you are trying to do, what happens, what
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you think should have happened, an example for us to repeat, the output
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you get when trying the example, and a patch for the problem if you have
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one. Please make any patches with @code{diff -u} or @code{diff -c}.
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Suggestions, comments and other non bug reports are also welcome.
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@heading Mailing list
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There are two mailing lists with talk about
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Heimdal. @email{heimdal-announce@@sics.se} is a low-volume announcement
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list, while @email{heimdal-discuss@@sics.se} is for general discussion.
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Send a message to @email{majordomo@@sics.se} to subscribe.
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@heading Heimdal source code, binaries and the manual
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The source code for heimdal, links to binaries and the manual (this
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document) can be found on our web-page at
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@url{http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/}.
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