glfs/postlfs/security/heimdal/heimdal-intro.xml
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<sect2>
<title>Introduction to <application>Heimdal</application></title>
<para>
<application>Heimdal</application> is a free implementation of Kerberos
5, that aims to be compatible with <acronym>MIT</acronym> krb5 and
is backwards compatible with krb4. Kerberos is a network
authentication protocol. Basically it preserves the integrity of
passwords in any untrusted network (like the Internet). Kerberized
applications work hand-in-hand with sites that support Kerberos to
ensure that passwords cannot be stolen. A Kerberos installation will
make changes to the authentication mechanisms on your network and will
overwrite several programs and daemons from the Coreutils, Inetutils,
Qpopper and Shadow packages.
</para>
<sect3><title>Package information</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&heimdal-download-http;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&heimdal-download-ftp;"/></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Download size: &heimdal-size;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated Disk space required: &heimdal-buildsize;</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Estimated build time: &heimdal-time;</para></listitem></itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3><title>Additional downloads</title>
<itemizedlist spacing='compact'>
<listitem><para>Required patch: <ulink
url="&patch-root;/heimdal-&heimdal-version;-fhs-compliance-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
<listitem><para>Required patch for cracklib: <ulink
url="&patch-root;/heimdal-&heimdal-version;-cracklib-1.patch"/></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect3>
<sect3><title><application>Heimdal</application> dependencies</title>
<sect4><title>Required</title>
<para>
<xref linkend="openssl"/> and
<xref linkend="db"/>
</para></sect4>
<sect4><title>Optional</title>
<para>
<xref linkend="readline"/>,
<xref linkend="Linux_PAM"/>,
<xref linkend="openldap"/>,
X (<xref linkend="xorg"/> or <xref linkend="xfree86"/>),
<xref linkend="cracklib"/> and
<ulink url="http://www.pdc.kth.se/kth-krb/">krb4</ulink>
</para>
<note><para>
Some sort of time synchronization facility on your system (like <xref
linkend="ntp"/>) is required since Kerberos won't authenticate if the
time differential between a kerberized client and the
<acronym>KDC</acronym> server is more than 5 minutes.</para></note>
</sect4>
</sect3>
</sect2>