Originally posted by: rsandeep
Following are answers o your queries:
>>AS I am exploring this more, wanted to know if AIX Kerberos/IBM NAS for AIX supports any centralized mechanism to locate the KDC from various clients ?
Yes. IBM NAS supports discovery of KDC via LDAP, "KDC discovery using LDAP feature provides the capability for a Network Authentication Service client to find the location of the KDC,
administration server, and password change service in their current realm from a centrally configured and maintained location" Latest release of IBM NAS should also support lookup by DNS
>>Also does DB2 for AIX makes use of the IBM NAS for AIX . Any pointers ?
Yes, DB2 also makes use of IBM NAS for Kerberized authentication. Here is one article that will help.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/data/library/techarticle/dm-0603see/index.html Hope this helps