Having an internal discussion at Real Time about kerberos.

As an undergrad, kerberos was -it- for a secure network environment. Most of the
interstructure authenticated and authorized against kerberos. Login, mail, even
AFS (can't remember what is was really called back then, transarc?).

Anyways, with openssh, ssl, generic TLS stuff. Is kerberos necessary still?

Some people here are arguing the kerberos is "old" technology and not necessary.
Others argue about security issue in kerberos. Still others argue that kerberos
is the only was to support things like secure/token cards.

So, anyone have comments?


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