Kerberos is 'fun'. I had to manage a system which used Kerberos to provide authentication between a Rubik's cube of various Windows flavours with various crypto standards, Linux machines of various versions and Java versions and apps of various maturity. It was an ever present source of weird behaviour and I had to bury myself in the innards of all these systems.

I know, not directly related to the article. Just needed to vent bitterly.