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I don't think FTP has ever been a major application of Kerberos. It's a relative latecomer. Kerberos V4 was probably the first version that saw widespread use outside MIT; it was developed in 1987. Kerberos V5 was developed around 1991 and standardized as RFC 1510 in 1993. Kerberos Telnet (ie Telnet authentication option subnegotiation with the KERBEROSV4 type code) was also standardized in 1993, as RFC 1411, using Kerberos V4.
we use to go by and visit-checkup on project athena projects periodically, including kerberos. i have some memory of sitting thru a presentation & discussion of the (at...
The FTP AUTH command wasn't standardized until RFC 2228 in 1997, ten years after Kerberos first spread outside MIT. Kerberos FTP is specified in Appendix II of RFC 2228. The RFC also notes that a common mechanism for secure file transfer at the time was rcp with Kerberos; in general, the BSD r-commands secured with Kerberos were typically used to do explicit file transfer in Kerberos installations prior to SSH's ascendancy. (File sharing was also common, using Kerberos-enabled AFS or NFS.)
It's actually quite easy to Kerberos-enable an application. When I was at IBM I added Kerberos to xdm, among other things, purely for my own convenience.
Precisely. That's what OEM's did. I earned quite a good living doing exactly that on a small scale. There was Intergraph, and Systime, and Olivetti, and Plessey... Lots of people made general purpose...
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