Re: "Microsoft to publish details of Kerberos Authorisation Data in Windows 2000"

[peter () HUNDREDWATT COM (Peter Leonard)]

It gets worse.

By clicking on the .exe, you're presented with a User Agreement.  The
documentation falls under Microsoft NDA, is proprietary, and cannot be
used to develop compatible applications.

Jeremy Allison of the Samba Team posted something about this on LinuxToday
yesterday:
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/21066.html

        --peter

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Peter Leonard
100W
'ARRGH!  Pirate Designers of the Internet, we be!"

On Mon, 1 May 2000, Grant Bayley wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I hope this hasn't been mentioned already (I unsubscribed there for a few
> days while I was on holiday) but I just came across the details of
> Microsoft's use of the extra fields in Kerberos in Windows 2000:
>
>       http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/kerberos/default.asp
>
> The silly part is, and I hope someone from Microsoft is listening, but why
> is this document distributed as a .exe file when the previous page says
> "Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader"?  I mean, thanks for compressing the
> document and all, but why should I firstly go and find a Windows machine
> to run this document on to secondly read how you guys have deviated from
> the standard in the first place?  It conveniently leaves to one side the
> issue of the user having to trust an executable file in the first place...
>
> Grant
>
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