SEAM Components

The full release of SEAM 1.0 in SEAS 3.0 includes many components, including:

• Key Distribution Center (KDC)

• Database administration programs

• User programs for obtaining, viewing and destroying tickets

• Kerberized applications -- telnet

• Administration utilities

• Additions to the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM)

The list of all of the components in the SEAM 1.0 release can be found in "Introduction to SEAM" in Sun Enterprise Authentication Mechanism Guide.

The Solaris 8 release includes only the client-side portions of SEAM, so many of these components are not included. This enables systems running the Solaris 8 release to become SEAM clients without having to install SEAM separately. To use this funtionality you must install a KDC using either SEAS 3.0, the MIT distribution, or Windows2000. 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, kdestroy -- and for changing your SEAM password -- kpasswd

• Key table administration utility -- ktutil

• Additions to the Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) -- Allows applications to use various authentication mechanisms; PAM can be used to make login and logouts transparent to the user.

• GSS_API plug-ins -- Provides Kerberos protocol and cryptographic support

• NFS client and server support