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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newstand.syr.edu!jdimpson From: jdimpson@newstand.syr.edu (Jeremy D. Impson) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux or FreeBSD (or something else?) Followup-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 17 Apr 1997 00:11:41 GMT Organization: that wacky place known as Syracuse U. Lines: 38 Message-ID: <5j3prt$do2@newstand.syr.edu> References: <5hcbac$r22@news.gvsu.edu> <859659793-6-9882@manatee.envirolink.org> <33455DE7.72D5@multics-a.pms.ford.com> <5ipu6g$igq$1@halcyon.com> <33526041.5A58E28E@softdisk.com> Reply-To: jdimpson@mailbox.syr.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: gamera.syr.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au alt.os.linux:20232 comp.os.linux.misc:170265 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39205 Eric L. Green (exec@softdisk.com) wrote: : Tim Smith wrote: : > : > Vincent F. Scarafino <Scarafino@multics-a.pms.ford.com> wrote: : > >> >: What *significant* things can UNIX do that NT4 or 95 can't? : Transmit files using an authenticated encrypted connection, i.e. : Kerberos 5 or ssh. : Billy Boy is promising Kerberos in the next release of NT. I need it : now -- we sell educational administration systems, and we cannot put : confidential student data onto the Internet to transmit it to the : state department of education unless it is in encrypted form. I guess we : could use Netscape and a secure web server, but I don't want to make : my users have to start up a piggish program in order to transmit their : students to the state. Don't hold your breath. Here at Syracuse University Computing Services machine room/office building, there is a Lab for a magazine called Network Computing. (It's a trade rag.) I've done a little bit of testing for them. Last month we had one of NT's product managers in, along with a really annoying PR guy (How permutations of "How may I serve you?" are there in the English Language?). They talked about the kerberos support like it would solve all security problems. But when the editor who was writing the article about some microsoft product or another asked about interoperability with the real kerberos, the MS guys kind of clammed up and eventually admitted that it probably won't work with 'Standard' Kerberos. Where do they get off even calling it Kerberos is what I'd like to know... -- Jeremy Impson http://web.syr.edu/~jdimpson/ Undergraduate, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY Computer Science and Spanish Literature & Language SysAdmin, Orange Source On-Line Publication