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MIT Kerberos for Macintosh 3.5 Release Notes

MIT Kerberos for Macintosh 3.5 is a major release of MIT Kerberos for Macintosh which introduces several new UI elements and CarbonLib compatibility. Many of the components have changed names to fit into future designs better.
Requirements: A PowerPC Macintosh running Mac OS 8.1 through 9.1. Compatible with Mac OS X's Classic enivornment.
New Features in MIT Kerberos for Macintosh 3.5
Kerberos Control Panel

New Ticket Information window lists details of TGTs and service tickets
Expanded Preferences options, including floating window options and minimum and maximum allowed lifetimes

Kerberos Menu

Displays status of active user's TGT
Provides convenient acquisition, deletion and renewal of tickets
Allows easy switching between active users

Kerberos Control Strip

Displays status of active user's TGT
Can display active user's principal and remaining ticket lifetime
Provides convenient acquisition, deletion and renewal of tickets
Allows easy switching between active users

Kerberos Floating Window

Displays status of all authenticated users' TGTs
Display all users' principals and relative lifetime indicator
Provides convenient acquisition, deletion and renewal of tickets
Allows easy switching between active users
Close box can be disabled

Carbon

Carbon versions of all KfM libraries for use with CarbonLib applications

Other Improvements

Kerberos v4 long lifetime support
Kerberos Login dialog displays Caps Lock warning
More K5Client fixes
Better support for changing password with hardware preauthentication
Fixed problems that prevented machines from going to sleep

Useful Webpages

Kerberos for Macintosh Documentation - information on using the new KfM components and their features.
Known Bugs - known bugs for each KfM release

Questions or comments? Send mail to macdev@mit.edu
Last updated on $Date: 2003/11/18 22:03:45 $
Last modified by $Author: smcguire $