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Article: 13156 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Path: newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu!watsun.cc.columbia.edu!jaltman
From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: Kermit 95 SSH, FTP Client Ready for Beta Testing
Date: 24 Jan 2002 20:27:15 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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In article <a2pqd8$a0u$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>,
Jeffrey Altman <jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:
: In article <a2pl33$h4v$1@samba.rahul.net>, <dold@03.usenet.us.com> wrote:
: : Frank da Cruz <fdc@columbia.edu> wrote:
: :
: : : This is to announce the first in a series of Beta tests for the
: : : forthcoming new Kermit 95 release. As described in:
: :
: :
: : On downloading, I am confronted with a question that I've asked here
: : before. What are all those files?
: : I think some of the executables are leftovers from long ago. some are
: : probably valuable, but lacking any documentation.
: :
: : Since the Beta isn't supposed to be loaded over the top of an existing
: : Kermit, I tried to rename c:\k95, and I couldn't, because "fleavius.exe"
: : was running. What is fleavius, and why is it running?
: :
: :
: : --
: : ---
: : Clarence A Dold - dold@email.rahul.net
: : - Pope Valley (Napa County) CA.
:
:
: Fleavius is not part of Kermit. Fleavius is part of MIT Kerberos
: which up until now we have never distributed as part of Kermit 95.
Forgot to answer the "what does it do part". Long ago it was realized
that on insecure operating systems with insecure file systems you did
not want to store authentication credentials in a file. You want to
store them in memory so they go away when the machine is turned off.
So Kerberos stored the credentials in a shared memory block so all
applications could access it. However, if no applications are using
the shared memory, the OS releases it. So there always needs to be at
least one application using the shared memory. That one application is
Fleavius. However, in the last few years the architecture of in memory
storage has been changed and recent MIT KfW distributions use a
different process: krbcc32s.exe
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer C-Kermit 8.0 available now!!!
The Kermit Project @ Columbia University includes Telnet, FTP and HTTP
http://www.kermit-project.org/ secured with Kerberos, SRP, and
kermit-support@columbia.edu OpenSSL. Interfaces with OpenSSH