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diff --git a/crypto/heimdal/lib/krb5/kerberos.8 b/crypto/heimdal/lib/krb5/kerberos.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1b2ec91 --- /dev/null +++ b/crypto/heimdal/lib/krb5/kerberos.8 @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +.\" $Id: kerberos.8,v 1.1 2000/09/01 15:52:24 joda Exp $ +.\" +.Dd September 1, 2000 +.Dt KERBEROS 8 +.Os HEIMDAL +.Sh NAME +.Nm kerberos +.Nd introduction to the Kerberos system +.Sh DESCRIPTION +Kerberos is a network authentication system. It's purpose is to +securely authenticate users and services in an insecure network +environment. +.Pp +This is done with a Kerberos server acting as a trusted third party, +keeping a database with secret keys for all users and services +(collectively called +.Em principals ) . +.Pp +Each principal belongs to exactly one +.Em realm , +which is the administrative domain in Kerberos. A realm usually +corresponds to an organisation, and the realm should normally be +derived from that organisation's domain name. A realm is served by one +or more Kerberos servers. +.Pp +The authentication process involves exchange of +.Sq tickets +and +.Sq authenticators +which together prove the principal's identity. +.Pp +When you login to the Kerberos system, either through the normal +system login or with the +.Xr kinit 1 +program, you acquire a +.Em ticket granting ticket +which allows you to get new tickets for other services, such as +.Ic telnet +or +.Ic ftp , +without giving your password. +.Pp +For more information on how Kerberos works, and other general Kerberos +questions see the Kerberos FAQ at +.Ad http://www.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html . + +For setup instructions see the Heimdal Texinfo manual. +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr ftp 1 +.Xr kdestroy 1 , +.Xr kinit 1 , +.Xr klist 1 , +.Xr kpasswd 1 , +.Xr telnet 1 +.Sh HISTORY +The Kerberos authentication system was developed in the late 1980's as +part of the Athena Project at the Massachusetts Institute of +Technology. Versions one through three never reached outside MIT, but +version 4 was (and still is) quite popular, especially in the academic +community, but is also used in commercial products like the AFS +filesystem. +.Pp +The problems with version 4 are that it has many limitations, the code +was not too well written (since it had been developed over a long +time), and it has a number of known security problems. To resolve many +of these issues work on version five started, and resulted in IETF +RFC1510 in 1993. Since then much work has been put into the further +development, and a new RFC will hopefully appear soon. +.Pp +This manual manual page is part of the +.Nm Heimdal +Kerberos 5 distribution, which has been in development at the Royal +Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, since about 1997. |