[OpenAFS] Support for Kerberos V

Harald Barth haba@kth.se
Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:41:59 +0100 (CET)


> In the book, the reader is instructed to install and configure the
> KDC with the "nopreauth" Kerberos IV compatibility setting selected,
> which also activates the krb524 process. It is explained that this
> is necessary for AFS.

Just a short note: In 2009, with OpenAFS versions 1.4.10 or newer and
for example the kerberos tools and libraries from Heimdal 1.2.1 or
newer, you do not need any of this. AFS still requires old des
enctypes, but everything works without v4. Someone else can sure explain
this in more detail.

Harald.