SEAM Components in the Solaris 8 Release

The Solaris 8 release included 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 or Solaris 8 Admin Pack, the MIT distribution, or Windows2000. The client-side components are not useful without a configured KDC to distribute tickets. The following components were 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