Kerberos Components in the Solaris 8 Release

The Solaris 8 release includes only the client-side portions of the Kerberos service, so many components are not included. This product enables systems that run the Solaris 8 release to become Kerberos clients without requiring you to install SEAM 1.0.1 separately. To use these capabilities, you must install a KDC that uses either Solaris Easy Access Server 3.0 or the Solaris 8 Admin Pack, the MIT distribution, or Windows 2000. The client-side components are not useful without a configured KDC to distribute tickets. The following components are included in this release:

• User programs for obtaining, viewing, and destroying tickets – kinit, klist, and kdestroy.

• User program for changing your Kerberos password – kpasswd.

• Key table administration utility – ktutil.

• Additions to the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) – Enables applications to use various authentication mechanisms. PAM can be used to make logins and logouts transparent to the user.

• GSS_API plug–ins – Provides Kerberos protocol and cryptographic support.

• NFS client and server support.