daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (John T Kohl) Thu Jan 26 14:48:56 1989 From: John T Kohl <jtkohl@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> To: Kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Here is a quick summary of the differences between the beta-test version of Kerberos and the release version. This list is probably not complete. Thanks to Jennifer Steiner for compiling this list. The protocol has *not* changed. (see next message) Main differences in this release from beta release: use of Imake for Makefile generation many bug fixes better documentation new man pages source code documentation of krb library first version of an administrative server to the KDC database redistributable Berkeley code (no license required) name changes DES library routines - "des_" prepended some libkrb routines added functionality routine to set ticket file: krb_set_tkt_string (?) program to list contents of /etc/srvtab (in klist) program to get tgt given /etc/srvtab libacl: access control list library added upgraded Kerberos server, support for slave servers propagation of db from master to slaves support for new platforms: This release should work (with proper configuration of config.Imakefile) on Sun-3 SunOS 3.3 & 3.5 (probably others, too), Ultrix 3.0, VAX 4.3BSD, RT/PC 4.3BSD. Other configurations may or may not work "out of the can", we didn't have time or hardware to test them all #ifdef's for NOENCRYPTION, so that the calls to encryption routines can be removed completely from source [this relates to some export negotiations with the US Government] John