Date: 12 Apr 90 16:33:30 GMT From: cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu! uflorida!haven!aplcen!gregh@ohio-state.arpa (Greg Hollingsworth) To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU We've been experimenting with kerberos, and one problem I've found is that installing kerberos on a host which needs to interact in a heterogeneous computing environment may be a problem due to lack of support for kerberos in vendor supplied network software. I noticed in the latest DEC product announcements that kerberos would be included in the next major release of Ultrix (4.0). I'd like to find out what other vendors, if any, have chosen to incorporate kerberos authentication into their network software products. Thanks in advance for any information you can supply. Greg Hollingsworth (gregh@mailer.jhuapl.edu)
From: Henry Mensch <henry@MIT.EDU> To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Date: Thu, 12 Apr 90 20:18:07 EDT Greg Hollingsworth asked: >I noticed in the latest DEC product announcements that kerberos would >be included in the next major release of Ultrix (4.0). I'd like to >find out what other vendors, if any, have chosen to incorporate >kerberos authentication into their network software products. you'll have to ask the vendors. we get requests all the time from the various software and hardware vendors which we answer at great length. if you want to see kerberos in vendor product, then ask them (on behalf of project athena, i ask all kinds of vendors to consider our network services for inclusion in their product, but these vendors need to know there is customer demand for kerberos). if you do choose to ask your vendor "when are we going to see kerberos in your product?" i'd like to know about it also (see contact information below). i can say that we have submitted our technologies to the open software foundation in response to their (relatively) recent request for technologies for distributed computing environment, and (my humble opinion here) i feel there is a good chance that kerberos (in some form) will end up being part of the osf's distributed computing environment offering. if this happens, it may become easier for vendors to include kerberos in their offerings. -- Henry Mensch / <henry@MIT.EDU> -- Project Athena External Relations Group -- E40-379 MIT -- One Amherst Street -- CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139