Date: Thu, 24 Sep 92 14:42:13 -0400 From: tytso@Athena.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) To: Joergen Haegg <jh@efd.lth.se> Cc: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU In-Reply-To: Joergen Haegg's message of Tue, 22 Sep 92 18:18:31 +0200, I know it is not wise to set a date, but can you give any hint about when then next beta of Kerberos will be released? Well, I just sent out the pre-release of Beta 2 to a small set of initial testers. They will be ironing out any minor portability issues and on next Tuesday, I will be releasing Beta 2 publically. Beta two contains protocol changes so that it conforms with the latest Kerberos V5 protocol draft (currently in Internet-Draft status). In addition, it will include Kerberos V5 versions of rlogin/rcp/rsh, and a kadmin/kadmind server which was originally written by Bill Wrahe and Glenn Machin from Sandia National Labs. The kpasswd/kadmin/kadmind programs should be considered alpha quality, and both the user interface and the protocol are subject to change in future versions. However, the Kerberos protocol itself and the file formats of the key table (srvtab) and credentials cache should be fairly stable at this point. While the beta two code has not received a full audit, I have examined the code and am confident enough that it won't leak secrets (read: user's passwords) to run it as a slave server in the ATHENA.MIT.EDU realm, with the V4 backwards compatibility code enabled. So we are actually running the V5 KDC using production data at this point. - Ted