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diff --git a/crypto/heimdal/lib/krb5/kerberos.8 b/crypto/heimdal/lib/krb5/kerberos.8 deleted file mode 100644 index 5f0528495c6b..000000000000 --- a/crypto/heimdal/lib/krb5/kerberos.8 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,73 +0,0 @@ -.\" $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. |