Top Document: Kerberos FAQ, v2.0 (last modified 8/18/2000) Previous Document: 2. Administration questions Next Document: 2.2. What sort of resources do I need to dedicate to a KDC? See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge An excellent question! Please note that this information applies to the MIT Kerberos 5 release. If you're using one of the commercial versions of Kerberos, then you should consult the documentation that came with it. First, you should read at least some of the documentation in Question 1.4. You will find that administrating Kerberos is much easier once you understand the fundamentals. Once you feel you understand the basics, you should download the software from MIT. You can get it from any of the places listed in Question 1.5. Note that Kerberos is usually distributed as three tar files containing the src, doc, and crypto directories; you'll want to download all three tar files. The doc directory contains three important files that you'll want to read: the Kerberos installation guide, the Kerberos administration guide, and the Kerberos user's guide. The first one you'll need to read is the installation guide. After you have everything downloaded, you should compile the Kerberos distribution. If you don't have the space or would rather not, binary snapshots of Kerberos are available from the Kerberos web site mentioned in Question 1.5 for some of the more popular versions of Unix. If you're compiling Kerberos yourself, the installation guide explains how to do it, and lists most of the options you can give to configure program. Unless you have special needs the defaults are usually sufficient. Building the MIT Kerberos 5 distribution requires GNU make. I have not had success with any vendor's make. Once Kerberos is built, you should follow the instructions in the install guide for Chapter 4: "Installing Kerberos 5". Unfortunately, it is difficult to give specific directions on how to deploy Kerberos at your site, since every site is different. The deployment of Kerberos at your site may have political issues that are beyond the scope of this FAQ :-). A fair amount of practical advice can be found at: * <http://www.y12.doe.gov/~jar/HowToKerb.html> User Contributions:Top Document: Kerberos FAQ, v2.0 (last modified 8/18/2000) Previous Document: 2. Administration questions Next Document: 2.2. What sort of resources do I need to dedicate to a KDC? Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
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