Account administration in a distributed UNIX/Linux environment can become complicated and messy if done by hand. Large sites use special tools to deal with this problem. In this article, I describe ...

I've inherited a managed Linux desktop environment from a previous administrator. There are about 50 Ubuntu machines that use Kerberos and NIS for AuthN/AuthZ. There are two KDC servers that maintain ...

The Kerberos authentication method originated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1980s, as part of a project called Athena. The project involved integrating the computers on the MIT ...

A bypass bug present in the Kerberos cryptographic authentication protocol for 21 years has now been fixed in patches from Microsoft, Samba, Fedora, FreeBSD, and Debian. The discoverers of the ancient ...

A buffer overflow in the MIT Kerberos 5 network authentication tool’s “krb5_aname_to_localname()” library function could be exploited to gain root privileges on the affected machine. For more, go to: ...

Two implementations of the Kerberos authentication protocol received patches this week against a vulnerability that allowed a threat actor to bypass authentication procedures. The vulnerability was ...

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Vincent Danen takes you through the steps to set up Kerberos authentication on NFSv4 for more secure remote access to the server. In past tips we’ve looked at using Kerberos and how to authenticate ...

Hi,<BR><BR>I am trying to do RCP between two linux box. i am getting below error.<BR><BR>rcp x01:/x/pwork/tman/11 .<BR>connect to address linuxbox: Connection refused ...

Topic ===== remote root exploit in Kerberos 4 ALERT: exploits for this vulnerability already exist! Problem Description ===== A stack buffer overflow in the implementation of the Kerberos v4 ...