On 9/20/07, James R. Cutler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kerberos does not assume clock synchronization. > Kerberos requires reasonable clock synchronization. > And, as near as I can tell, clock synchronization is not part of the > Kerberos protocol. > > Kick me if I err in this. > > Cutler >
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_%28protocol%29#Kerberos_drawbacks<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_%2528protocol%2529#Kerberos_drawbacks> "Kerberos requires the clocks of the involved hosts to be synchronized. The tickets have time availability period and, if the host clock is not synchronized with the clock of Kerberos server, the authentication will fail. The default configuration requires that clock times are no more than 10 minutes apart. In practice, NTP<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol>daemons are usually employed to keep the host clocks synchronized."
