1@c $Id: intro.texi 22509 2008-01-23 18:28:01Z lha $ 2 3@node Introduction, What is Kerberos?, Top, Top 4@c @node Introduction, What is Kerberos?, Top, Top 5@comment node-name, next, previous, up 6@chapter Introduction 7 8@heading What is Heimdal? 9 10Heimdal is a free implementation of Kerberos 5. The goals are to: 11 12@itemize @bullet 13@item 14have an implementation that can be freely used by anyone 15@item 16be protocol compatible with existing implementations and, if not in 17conflict, with RFC 4120 (and any future updated RFC). RFC 4120 18replaced RFC 1510. 19@item 20be reasonably compatible with the M.I.T Kerberos V5 API 21@item 22have support for Kerberos V5 over GSS-API (RFC1964) 23@item 24include the most important and useful application programs (rsh, telnet, 25popper, etc.) 26@item 27include enough backwards compatibility with Kerberos V4 28@end itemize 29 30@heading Status 31 32Heimdal has the following features (this does not mean any of this 33works): 34 35@itemize @bullet 36@item 37a stub generator and a library to encode/decode/whatever ASN.1/DER 38stuff 39@item 40a @code{libkrb5} library that should be possible to get to work with 41simple applications 42@item 43a GSS-API library 44@item 45@file{kinit}, @file{klist}, @file{kdestroy} 46@item 47@file{telnet}, @file{telnetd} 48@item 49@file{rsh}, @file{rshd} 50@item 51@file{popper}, @file{push} (a movemail equivalent) 52@item 53@file{ftp}, and @file{ftpd} 54@item 55a library @file{libkafs} for authenticating to AFS and a program 56@file{afslog} that uses it 57@item 58some simple test programs 59@item 60a KDC that supports most things; optionally, it may also support 61Kerberos V4 and kaserver, 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