The Stanford view is generally true at UIUC as well. Although not that many departments are using KfW. I generally suspect that most larger universities have some type of authn|z system setup where the usernames match the Kerberos principals.
Of course, a few departments refuse to use the centralized directory and do their own thing. But that usually means that they have their own authn as well (and therefore I do not care about them as they get what they deserve for their deviations.) UIUC has what is branded as a "netid password" which a UIUC.EDU Kerberos password. There is also your "Active Directory" password which is the AD.UIUC.EDU realm. Ironically, the UIUC.EDU password is now being actively refered to as an "MIT password" since it is in MIT Kerberos. Of course, that term is only used by those who deal with the realm directly and not by end-users. If you care, you can read more at: http://www.cites.uiuc.edu/passwords/changes.html (There are at least 5 different authentication systems in wide use throughout campus, and that doesn't even count departmental level ones.) I would prefer to not modify the current NIM prompts and assume that the Windows username matches the Kerberos principal name in the default realm. <<CDC Kevin Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're not at Stanford, we'd like to hear your views, too. > > Kevin Koch > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Sam Hartman > ... >>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Russ> Jeff's analysis is correct for Stanford University: > Russ> "Kerberos" as a label is likely to be confusing to our less > Russ> technical users. We use an internal branding of "SUNet ID" > Russ> for a variety of reasons and many users don't know and don't > Russ> care what authentication technology is behind it. > > Interesting. We've been branding KFM as Kerberos for years and > haven't run into trouble. > > I think we'd definitely be very interested in discussing this issue > with users who think it would be harmdful. > Could you forward this to the appropriate folks at Stanford for such a > discussion? _______________________________________________ kfwdev mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kfwdev
