Kerberos and Solaris 8
The Solaris 8 operating environment supports Kerberos versions 4 and 5 as part of the Sun Enterprise Authentication Mechanism (SEAM). The client and the pluggable authentication module (PAM) for Kerberos V5 are included in Solaris 8 and are an integrated part of the operating system. This means that any Solaris 8 system is “Kerberized” (that is, it can support Kerberos for authentication). However, Solaris 8 by itself does not include the Kerberos server software. There are a number of available Kerberos server software distributions, both free and commercial. Here are just some of them:
The Kerberos server of the Sun Easy Access Server (SEAS, http://www.sun.com)
MIT’s source code Kerberos server (http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/ ...
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