Hi Jeffrey,

Many thanks. 
Some questions are in line.


> -----原始邮件-----
> 发件人: "Jeffrey Altman" <[email protected]>
> 发送时间: 2018-05-16 00:29:48 (星期三)
> 收件人: huangql <[email protected]>, openafs-info <[email protected]>
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> 主题: Re: [OpenAFS] About the upgrading from kaserver toKerberos 5
> 
> On 5/15/2018 11:24 AM, huangql wrote:
> > Hi Jeffrey,
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks for your prompt and constructive reply.
> > 
> > 
> > If the afs2k5db tool was compiled against OpenAFS 1.2 and MIT Kerberos
> > 1.2, does it work for Openafs-1.4.14-1 version under 64bit ?
> 
> As I indicated, the kaserver database file format has not changed.
> Therefore, it should not matter.

We will do that.


> 
> > Or is there other method to migrate the users to kdc 5?
> 
> Well, IHEP could just bring up a new Kerberos v5 realm and create all
> necessary client and server principals from scratch.

I have no idea about the scratch, Could you give more information about this? 
If there is documents about this, it would be excellent.


> 
> At this point that might not be such a bad idea.   The kaserver (being
> Kerberos v4 based) only supports DES-CBC-CRC 56-bit keys.  Those keys
> can be brute forced in under 20 hours.  The krbtgt and afs keys are
> particularly vulnerable.  Theft of them permits any identity to be
> forged.  Copying these keys into the new Kerberos v5 realm is pointless
> as they must be replaced immediately.


> 
> The client configurations will have to be updated in any case to deploy
> Kerberos v5 libraries and configuration files.  My recommendation is to
> start from scratch with Kerberos v5 and configure the AFS cell to accept
> both kaserver and Kerberos v5 for authentication.  See the OpenAFS
> krb.conf man page.

Could you please point out how to configure to accept kaserver and kerberos v5?

Thank you.
> 
> Again, good luck.
> 
> Jeffrey Altman

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