3 engineers on Hacker News describe using Kerberos first-hand: 0 endorse it, 2 regret it, 0 are mixed.
“I did try to make kerberos work with NFS for a few days but the experience was akin to staring into the sun.”
regret · personal · solid_fuel · 2025-12-04 · source ↗ · wrong label?“I used it a lot at Chicago in the early '90s, then never again... it was ever a PITA to set up (I'm looking at YOU, Kerberos.)”
regret · personal · jfb · 2013-05-02 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Where I work we use something simple like kerberos/basic/digest/custom http header authentication on our apps”
neutral · production · y0ghur7_xxx · 2012-11-07 · source ↗ · wrong label?