[KLUG Members] Suse 9.3's Move To Heimdal

[Adam Tauno Williams]

For those interested in understanding what is happening with
Samba4/Kerberos/LDAP I've dug up these links -

http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/krbdev/2005-June/003477.html
http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/krbdev/2005-June/003459.html
http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/krbdev/2005-June/003490.html
http://samba.org/ftp/unpacked/samba4/source/auth/kerberos/kerberos-notes.txt
http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/krbdev/2005-June/003498.html

> 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