PROJECTS: Kerberos Resources

Page last modified Wed Mar 29 14:19:09 2006

Local Documents

• What is Kerberos?, by Tillman Hodgson
• Heimdal Kerberos: Installation and Configuration, by Tillman Hodgson

What is Kerberos? Background reading

• Designing an Authentication System: a Dialogue in Four Scenes
• Sharing a Secret: How Kerberos Works (locally mirrored PDF)
• Wikipedia Kerberos entry
• RFC 1510, The Kerberos Network Authentication Service (V5)
• RFC 1964, The Kerberos Version 5 GSS-API Mechanism
• The NCSA Kerberos information web site
  • Presentation: Kerberos 5 in a Nutshell
  • Presentation: Kerberos 5 Ticket Acquisition

Misc Guides and Howto's

• The FreeBSD 5.2.x + Kerberos HOWTO
• The Kerberos FAQ
• Network Computing's Kerberos Network Design Manual
• Replacing NIS with Kerberos and LDAP HOWTO
• The White II FAQ. ``White II'' is a description of a formalized Supported Linux Computing Environment. The use Kerberos and AFS rather than NIS/LDAP and NFS and explain their reasoning in this document.
• The Berkeley local Kerberos pages

Integration with Microsoft Windows &trademark;

• Microsoft ``Step-by-Step guide'' to Kerberos 5 (krb5 1.0) Interoperability
• The USENIX LISA-NT 2000 Conference had a presentation by Paul Hill on ``Kerberos interoperability issues'', available in PDF and HTML formats
• The Lab Mice Kerberos/Windows resources page
• The JSI FAQ on "How do I use the Kerberos setup tool to configure Windows 2000 clients to use an MIT Kerberos server instead of using a Windows 2000 domain for user authentication?"
• The University of Michigan Windows 2000 Kerberos overview document
• Windows 2000-MIT Kerberos Interop Trip-ups draft

Software

• MIT Kerberos home page
• Heimdal Kerberos home page
• Download page for a variety of Windows Kerberized tools by Certified Security Solutions