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Network Services in the Athena Environment (1988)
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@MISC{Steiner88networkservices,
author = {Jennifer G. Steiner and Daniel E. Geer and Jr.},
title = {Network Services in the Athena Environment},
year = {1988}
}
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Abstract
As a prerequisite for achieving its mission of fostering educational innovation at M.I.T., Project Athena must support a large network of independently owned and controlled workstations. At the Project's inception, systems software to support such a configuration did not exist. As a result, a large part of the systems development effort during Athena's first five years has been devoted to the design and implementation of network services to fill this need. This paper describes the use of network services in the Athena environment, including three new systems level services developed at Athena: the Kerberos authentication service, the Service Management System, and the Hesiod name service. Introduction Project Athena 1 is a joint effort between M.I.T. and a number of external sponsors, principally Digital Equipment Corporation and International Business Machines. Funded originally for five years and recently extended for an additional three, Project Athena is an experiment in...
Keyphrases
network service athena environment project athena kerberos authentication service large network system development effort digital equipment corporation educational innovation hesiod name service joint effort international business machine system software external sponsor new system level service introduction project athena service management system large part
