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Introduction
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What is Heimdal?
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Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. The goals are to:
* have an implementation that can be freely used by anyone
* be protocol compatible with existing implementations and, if not in
conflict, with RFC 1510 (and any future updated RFC)
* be reasonably compatible with the M.I.T Kerberos V5 API
* have support for Kerberos V5 over GSS-API (RFC1964)
* include the most important and useful application programs (rsh,
telnet, popper, etc.)
* include enough backwards compatibility with Kerberos V4
Status
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Heimdal has the following features (this does not mean any of this
works):
* a stub generator and a library to encode/decode/whatever ASN.1/DER
stuff
* a `libkrb5' library that should be possible to get to work with
simple applications
* a GSS-API library that should have all the important functions for
building applications
* Eric Young's `libdes'
* `kinit', `klist', `kdestroy'
* `telnet', `telnetd'
* `rsh', `rshd'
* `popper', `push' (a movemail equivalent)
* `ftp', and `ftpd'
* a library `libkafs' for authenticating to AFS and a program
`afslog' that uses it
* some simple test programs
* a KDC that supports most things; optionally, it may also support
Kerberos V4 and kaserver,
* simple programs for distributing databases between a KDC master and
slaves
* a password changing daemon `kpasswdd', library functions for
changing passwords and a simple client
* some kind of administration system
* Kerberos V4 support in many of the applications.
Bug reports
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If you find bugs in this software, make sure it is a genuine bug and not
just a part of the code that isn't implemented.
Bug reports should be sent to <heimdal-bugs@pdc.kth.se>. Please include
information on what machine and operating system (including version)
you are running, what you are trying to do, what happens, what you
think should have happened, an example for us to repeat, the output you
get when trying the example, and a patch for the problem if you have
one. Please make any patches with `diff -u' or `diff -c'.
Suggestions, comments and other non bug reports are also welcome.
Mailing list
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There are two mailing lists with talk about Heimdal.
<heimdal-announce@sics.se> is a low-volume announcement list, while
<heimdal-discuss@sics.se> is for general discussion. Send a message to
<majordomo@sics.se> to subscribe.
Heimdal source code, binaries and the manual
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The source code for heimdal, links to binaries and the manual (this
document) can be found on our web-page at
<http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/>.
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