Kerberos for Macintosh 5.0 Release Notes
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| ## Kerberos for Macintosh 5.0 Release Notes

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).

### System Requirements for Kerberos for Macintosh 5.0

- Mac OS X 10.3 (included with operating system)

### New Features and Changes in Kerberos for Macintosh 5.0

- Kerberos Authentication Dialog

- Redesigned, streamlined Kerberos authentication dialog
- Rewritten entirely in Cocoa
- UI for getting addressless tickets (NAT mode) in authentication dialog
- UI for getting renewable tickets and setting renewable lifetime in authentication dialog
- Kerberos authentication dialog badged to show which application presented it
- New realms can be entered directly into dialog (for DNS support)
- Localized for French, German, and Japanese

- Kerberos Application

- Improved appearance and performance
- New icon with better key status visibility
- Support for setting defaults for addressless tickets, renewable tickets, and renewable lifetime
- Optionally will automatically renew renewable tickets
- Support for adding DNS realms in the Edit Favorite Realms dialog
- Double-click on ticket entries to display ticket information window
- Will work without a configuration file being present

- Miscellaneous

- Includes MIT Kerberos 1.3.1
- Apple KDC based on MIT KDC ships with Mac OS X Server (includes integration with other services on Mac OS X server)
- Standard MIT KDC binaries are included with Mac OS X client but not configured
- kadmin, ktutil tools now included
- Improved Windows interoperability: TCP support added to client libraries and KDC, RC4 crypto system, Microsoft set-password protocol
- Support for DNS lookups of KDCs
- Defaults to addressless tickets (if user hasn't already specified a default in their configuration file)
- Kerberos configuration file can now be located in /etc/krb5.conf
- Kerberos v4 now based on MIT's core v4 compatibility library
- No longer prompts for Kerberos login in command-line environments
- Many bug fixes and feature improvements