Kerberos - real world examples?

Question

I know how Kerberos works and understand it purpose but I need some real world examples, where does it fit, and have you ever use it?

Answer 1

The computer science department at my university uses it for authenticating users who are logging in to CS dept computers remotely (usually from outside the building or department network) over SSH.

Answer 2

One of the incarnations of the Integrated windows authentication is based of Kerberos.

Answer 3

Kerboros is used extensively for authenticated access to AFS. AFS is used a lot in High Energy Physics experiments. Have a look at an example listing of sites at the openafs.org website. For write access you most probably need a Kerboros token for the cell.

Answer 4

• Windows 2000 and later use Kerberos as their default authentication method. Some Microsoft additions to the Kerberos suite of protocols are documented in RFC 3244 "Microsoft Windows 2000 Kerberos Change Password and Set Password Protocols". RFC 4757 documents Microsoft's use of the RC4 cipher. While Microsoft uses the Kerberos protocol, it does not use the MIT software.

• Many UNIX-like operating systems, including FreeBSD, Apple's Mac OS X, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, Sun's Solaris, IBM's AIX, HP's OpenVMS, and others, include software for Kerberos authentication of users or services.

from wikipedia,

also if you visit http://www.kerberos.org/ , the Kerberos Consortium, they have a pdf document which has as sponsors:

• Apple
• Carnegie Mellon
• Columbia
• Cornell
• Centrify Corporation
• The United States DOD
• Duke University
• The Financial Services Technology Consortium
• Google
• Iowa State University
• MIT
• Michigan State
• Microsoft
• NASA
• Pennsylvania State
• Stanford University
• Sun Microsystems
• Team F1, inc.
• The University of Michigan

Which shows that if implemented correctly, there are uses for it.

visit http://k5wiki.kerberos.org/wiki/Main_Page for more information on this consortium.