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Kerberos for Macintosh 5.0 Release Notes

Kerberos for Macintosh 5.0 is a major new version of Kerberos for Macintosh for Mac OS X. It is only available as part of Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).

System Requirements for Kerberos for Macintosh 5.0

• Mac OS X 10.3 or later (KfM 5.0 included with operating system)

New Features and Changes in Kerberos for Macintosh 5.0

General

• Includes MIT Kerberos v5 1.3.1
• Apple KDC based on MIT KDC ships with Mac OS X Server (includes integration with other services on Mac OS X server)
• Standard MIT KDC binaries are included with Mac OS X client but not configured
• kadmin, ktutil tools now included
• Improved Windows interoperability: TCP support added to client libraries and KDC, RC4 crypto system, Microsoft set-password protocol
• Support for DNS lookups of KDCs
• Defaults to addressless tickets (if user hasn't already specified a default in their configuration file)
• Kerberos configuration file can now be located in /etc/krb5.conf
• Kerberos v4 now based on MIT's core v4 compatibility library
• No longer prompts for Kerberos login in command-line environments
• Many bug fixes and feature improvements

Kerberos Login Dialog

• Redesigned, streamlined Kerberos Login dialog
• Rewritten entirely in Cocoa
• UI for getting addressless tickets (NAT mode) in Login dialog
• UI for getting renewable tickets and setting renewable lifetime in Login dialog
• Kerberos Login dialog badged to show which application presented it
• New realms can be entered directly into dialog (for DNS support)
• Localized for French, German, and Japanese

Kerberos Application

• Improved appearance and performance
• New icon with better key status visibility
• Support for setting defaults for addressless tickets, renewable tickets, and renewable lifetime
• Optionally will automatically renew renewable tickets
• Support for adding DNS realms in the Edit Favorite Realms dialog
• Double-click on ticket entries to display ticket information window
• Will work without a configuration file being present

Useful Webpages

• Kerberos for Macintosh FAQs
• Mac OS X Kerberos Extras
• Kerberos for Macintosh Documentation - information on using the KfM components and their features.

Questions or comments? Send mail to macdev@mit.edu
Last updated on $Date: 2003/11/18 20:41:49 $
Last modified by $Author: smcguire $