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-.\" $Id: kerberos.8,v 1.5 2002/08/20 17:07:17 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. Its 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
-.Pa http://www.nrl.navy.mil/CCS/people/kenh/kerberos-faq.html .
-.Pp
-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.