[KLUG Members] Suse 9.3's Move To Heimdal

[Adam Tauno Williams]

Quoting Adam Tauno Williams <adam at morrison.iserv.net>:
> 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

And this made it to the Samba technical list a couple of days ago, from 
Novell:
"I am glad to share the news that LDAP back-end for MIT Kerberos is
almost ready. Clean-up and some testing is remaining. I will put it up on the
web for your reference by end of next week."

>> 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