Please note the date of the original documentation. This documentation was based off a late beta (Beta 7?) of the Kerberos source. The current revision, as of Dec 10, 2000 is 1.2.2, and some things have changed. For the most part, these documents are still accurate, but you may need to double check your code for some wierd happenings. I haven't dealt with Kerberos for a few years now, so please don't email me questions. This is mostly provided as a service to CSH members -- but it seems that it's been linked to from everywhere. :)

I'm working on getting documentation up for the latest version, but as there is no clean LaTeX to HTML conversion that does what I want, this may take some time.

Contents

1. Introduction
   • 1.0 Introduction
   • 1.1 Acknowledgements
   • 1.2 Kerberos Basics
     • 1.2.1 The purpose of Realms
     • 1.2.2 Fundamental assumptions about the environment
   • 1.3 Glossary of terms
2. Useful KDC Parameters
3. Error Tables
   • 3.1 error_table krb5 0 - 127
   • 3.2 error_table krb5 128 - 255
   • 3.3 error_table kdb5 128 - 255
   • 3.4 error_table kv5m 128 - 255
4. Library Functions
   • 4.1 Main Functions
     • 4.1.1 The krb5_context
     • 4.1.2 The krb5_auth_context
     • 4.1.3 Principal Access Functions
     • 4.1.4 The Application Functions
     • 4.1.5 Miscellaneous Main Functions
   • 4.2 Credentials Cache Functions
   • 4.3 Replay Cache Functions
   • 4.4 Key Table Functions
   • 4.5 Free Functions
   • 4.6 Operating System Specific Functions
     • 4.6.1 Operating System Specific Context
     • 4.6.2 Configuration Based Functions
     • 4.6.3 Disk Based Functions
     • 4.6.4 Network Based Functions
     • 4.6.5 Miscellaneous Operating System Specific Functions
     • 4.6.6 Operating System Specific Access Functions