1@c Id 2@c $NetBSD: intro.texi,v 1.2 2017/01/28 21:31:44 christos Exp $ 3 4@node Introduction, What is Kerberos?, Top, Top 5@c @node Introduction, What is Kerberos?, Top, Top 6@comment node-name, next, previous, up 7@chapter Introduction 8 9@heading What is Heimdal? 10 11Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. The goals are to: 12 13@itemize @bullet 14@item 15have an implementation that can be freely used by anyone 16@item 17be protocol compatible with existing implementations and, if not in 18conflict, with RFC 4120 (and any future updated RFC). RFC 4120 19replaced RFC 1510. 20@item 21be reasonably compatible with the M.I.T Kerberos V5 API 22@item 23have support for Kerberos V5 over GSS-API (RFC1964) 24@item 25include the most important and useful application programs (rsh, telnet, 26popper, etc.) 27@item 28include enough backwards compatibility with Kerberos V4 29@end itemize 30 31@heading Status 32 33Heimdal has the following features (this does not mean any of this 34works): 35 36@itemize @bullet 37@item 38a stub generator and a library to encode/decode/whatever ASN.1/DER 39stuff 40@item 41a @code{libkrb5} library that should be possible to get to work with 42simple applications 43@item 44a GSS-API library 45@item 46@file{kinit}, @file{klist}, @file{kdestroy} 47@item 48@file{telnet}, @file{telnetd} 49@item 50@file{rsh}, @file{rshd} 51@item 52@file{popper}, @file{push} (a movemail equivalent) 53@item 54@file{ftp}, and @file{ftpd} 55@item 56a library @file{libkafs} for authenticating to AFS and a program 57@file{afslog} that uses it 58@item 59some simple test programs 60@item 61a KDC that supports most things, 62@item 63simple programs for distributing databases between a KDC master and 64slaves 65@item 66a password changing daemon @file{kpasswdd}, library functions for 67changing passwords and a simple client 68@item 69some kind of administration system 70@item 71Kerberos V4 support in many of the applications. 72@end itemize 73 74@heading Bug reports 75 76If you find bugs in this software, make sure it is a genuine bug and not 77just a part of the code that isn't implemented. 78 79Bug reports should be sent to @email{heimdal-bugs@@h5l.org}. Please 80include information on what machine and operating system (including 81version) you are running, what you are trying to do, what happens, what 82you think should have happened, an example for us to repeat, the output 83you get when trying the example, and a patch for the problem if you have 84one. Please make any patches with @code{diff -u} or @code{diff -c}. 85 86Suggestions, comments and other non bug reports are also welcome. 87 88@heading Mailing list 89 90There are two mailing lists with talk about 91Heimdal. @email{heimdal-announce@@sics.se} is a low-volume announcement 92list, while @email{heimdal-discuss@@sics.se} is for general discussion. 93Send a message to @email{majordomo@@sics.se} to subscribe. 94 95@heading Heimdal source code, binaries and the manual 96 97The source code for heimdal, links to binaries and the manual (this 98document) can be found on our web-page at 99@url{http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/}. 100