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<P>Kerberos for Macintosh 5.0 is a major new version of Kerberos for Macintosh for Mac OS X.  It is only available as part of Mac OS X 10.3 (Panther).</P>
  
<H3>System Requirements for Kerberos for Macintosh 5.0</H3>
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	<LI>Mac OS X 10.3 (included with operating system)</LI>
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<H3>New Features and Changes in Kerberos for Macintosh 5.0</H3>

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	<LI>Kerberos Authentication Dialog</LI>
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		<LI>Redesigned, streamlined Kerberos authentication dialog</LI>
		<LI>Rewritten entirely in Cocoa</LI>
		<LI>UI for getting addressless tickets (NAT mode) in authentication dialog</LI>
		<LI>UI for getting renewable tickets and setting renewable lifetime in authentication dialog</LI>
		<LI>Kerberos authentication dialog badged to show which application presented it</LI>
		<LI>New realms can be entered directly into dialog (for DNS support)</LI>
		<LI>Localized for French, German, and Japanese</LI>
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	<LI>Kerberos Application</LI>
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		<LI>Improved appearance and performance</LI>
		<LI>New icon with better key status visibility</LI>
		<LI>Support for setting defaults for addressless tickets, renewable tickets, and renewable lifetime</LI>
		<LI>Optionally will automatically renew renewable tickets</LI>
		<LI>Support for adding DNS realms in the Edit Favorite Realms dialog</LI>
		<LI>Double-click on ticket entries to display ticket information window</LI>
		<LI>Will work without a configuration file being present</LI>
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	<LI>Miscellaneous</LI>
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		<LI>Includes <A HREF="http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/krb5-1.3/README-1.3.1.txt">MIT Kerberos 1.3.1</A></LI>
		<LI>Apple KDC based on MIT KDC ships with Mac OS X Server (includes integration with other services on Mac OS X server)</LI>
		<LI>Standard MIT KDC binaries are included with Mac OS X client but not configured</LI>
		<LI>kadmin, ktutil tools now included</LI>
		<LI>Improved Windows interoperability: TCP support added to client libraries and KDC, RC4 crypto system, Microsoft set-password protocol</LI>
		<LI>Support for DNS lookups of KDCs</LI>
		<LI>Defaults to addressless tickets (if user hasn't already specified a default in their configuration file)
		<LI>Kerberos configuration file can now be located in /etc/krb5.conf</LI>
		<LI>Kerberos v4 now based on MIT's core v4 compatibility library</LI>
		<LI>No longer prompts for Kerberos login in command-line environments</LI>
		<LI>Many bug fixes and feature improvements</LI>
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