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3 @node Introduction, What is Kerberos?, Top, Top
4 @c @node Introduction, What is Kerberos?, Top, Top
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8 @heading What is Heimdal?
10 Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. The goals are to:
14 have an implementation that can be freely used by anyone
16 be protocol compatible with existing implementations and, if not in
17 conflict, with RFC 4120 (and any future updated RFC). RFC 4120
20 be reasonably compatible with the M.I.T Kerberos V5 API
22 have support for Kerberos V5 over GSS-API (RFC1964)
24 include the most important and useful application programs (rsh, telnet,
27 include enough backwards compatibility with Kerberos V4
32 Heimdal has the following features (this does not mean any of this
37 a stub generator and a library to encode/decode/whatever ASN.1/DER
40 a @code{libkrb5} library that should be possible to get to work with
45 @file{kinit}, @file{klist}, @file{kdestroy}
47 @file{telnet}, @file{telnetd}
49 @file{rsh}, @file{rshd}
51 @file{popper}, @file{push} (a movemail equivalent)
53 @file{ftp}, and @file{ftpd}
55 a library @file{libkafs} for authenticating to AFS and a program
56 @file{afslog} that uses it
58 some simple test programs
60 a KDC that supports most things; optionally, it may also support
61 Kerberos V4 and kaserver,
63 simple programs for distributing databases between a KDC master and
66 a password changing daemon @file{kpasswdd}, library functions for
67 changing passwords and a simple client
69 some kind of administration system
71 Kerberos V4 support in many of the applications.
76 If you find bugs in this software, make sure it is a genuine bug and not
77 just a part of the code that isn't implemented.
79 Bug reports should be sent to @email{heimdal-bugs@@h5l.org}. Please
80 include information on what machine and operating system (including
81 version) you are running, what you are trying to do, what happens, what
82 you think should have happened, an example for us to repeat, the output
83 you get when trying the example, and a patch for the problem if you have
84 one. Please make any patches with @code{diff -u} or @code{diff -c}.
86 Suggestions, comments and other non bug reports are also welcome.
90 There are two mailing lists with talk about
91 Heimdal. @email{heimdal-announce@@sics.se} is a low-volume announcement
92 list, while @email{heimdal-discuss@@sics.se} is for general discussion.
93 Send a message to @email{majordomo@@sics.se} to subscribe.
95 @heading Heimdal source code, binaries and the manual
97 The source code for heimdal, links to binaries and the manual (this
98 document) can be found on our web-page at
99 @url{http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/}.