Richard Gundersen wrote:
> Hi > > I am evaluating the suitability of Kerberos for a large scale > implementation (100's of users), where the apps will primarily be > running on Java App servers. I have MIT working in a test environment > (Linux server, Windows clients, custom Java apps) but I'm worried about > how easy it is to manage principles etc etc on a large scale. > > Kadmin works fine at the current scale but in a real implementation I > don't want to have to use kadmin from the console to manage user. In > fact this job will be given to a userwho will certainly not want to > start writing scripts/SSH'ing to the server. > > Ideally a web app front end would be written - but so far from the > documentation and books I've read, there's no easy way to communicate > with kadmin (I'm thinking a nice C or Java API here). Surely this must > be possible with one of the open source versions available. Er, like Moira was a front end to kerberos (and hesiod and the rest of athena). Recall that project athena ran on hundreds or thousands of machines when 12MHz was fast. I dealt with it for several hundred when 30MHz where the quick machines. > Has anyone else tried this? Would really appreciate an answer even if > it's just a simple 'yes, it's possible' ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
