Re: Heimdal with Solaris 8 clients, amonst other things

[Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams@ubsw.com>]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:03:52PM +0100, Tim Bishop wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Johan Danielsson [mailto:joda@pdc.kth.se]
> > Sent: 16 April 2002 16:49
> >
> > "Tim Bishop" <tim-lists@bishnet.net> writes:
> >
> > > The Solaris 8 client only wanted to offer des3-cbc-md5
> >
> > What client software is this? DES3 with MD5 is somewhat non-standard.
> 
> Whatever comes on Solaris 8 by default. I believe it's the SEAM client side
> bits, which is derived from the MIT kerberos 5 implementation.

SEAM is based on an older version of MIT krb5, apparently, and you
should probably not expect to be able to use 3DES with SEAM. Oh well,
des-cbc-crc is the only fully interoperable enctype anyways.

> kadmin> add_enctype
> Unrecognized command: add_enctype
> kadmin>
> 
> This would certainly be a useful and welcome addition :)

Sure would be. But it's not a kadmin issue. You'd need libkrb5 to
support dynamic loading of enctypes.

Cheers,

Nico
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