Re: why heimdal over MIT?

[fsmunoz@gesal.org]

Jean-Marc Chaton writes: 

> fsmunoz@gesal.org [Fri, 14/03/2003 at 12:18 +0000]
>> Frank Cusack writes:  
>> 
>> >For those of you running heimdal, why did you select it over MIT? 
>> >
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> Here (France), I couldn't get MIT source due to export restriction. So
> Heimdal was the alternative. 
> 
> Better afs integration (f.e. kinit gives you the token automaticly: one
> command)

I also found that the ftp command accepts the 'kauth' and 'afslog' option, 
which makes it possible to use ftp in AFS space. 

> 
> I had at the time issues for authentication from windows machines  that
> were solved more natively with Heimdal (I no longer remember the details
> though) 
> 

I think that the fact that Heimdal supports  arcfour-hmac-md5 encryption is 
one of the factors here. 

cheers, 

fsmunoz