[KLUG Members] Suse 9.3's Move To Heimdal

[Adam Tauno Williams]

Since SuSe's apparently *INSANE* move from Heimdal to MIT Kerberos in
SuSe 9.3 has come up at meetings I'll toss out what I've discovered:

1. Novell appears to be cozy with the MIT Kerberos project.  Enough to
get then to accept things like modular backends (including LDAP!!!).  So
what is possible with Heimdal Kerberos should soon be possible with MIT.
1.1. ASIDE:  I hope they also address the fact that Heimdal is ~300%
faster than MIT.
1.2. Novell is moving from their proprietary Kerberos implementation to
integrating MIT into eDirectory.
1.2.1. This is by adding a database abstraction layer to MIT Kerberos
(in conjunction with Sun & PADL).
1.2.1.1. This is very similair to Heimdal's hdb.
1.3. Novell is adding threading support to MIT (Finally!)

http://web.mit.edu/jaltman/Public/Samba-XP-Presentation.pdf
http://itinfo.mit.edu/work.php?id=1078

<Reaction>After the way the MIT people blew-off their threading problems
and dismissed the concept of LDAP enabled Kerberos as "insane", I find
this kind of strange.  Maybe Novell threw a load of cash in their
direction?</Reaction>