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Re: why we should document forwardable tickets

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Mar 6 15:30:59 1997

To: Craig Fields <cfields@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ghudson@MIT.EDU, mbarker@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Mar 1997 20:26:24 GMT."
             <199703062026.UAA02856@mad-scientist.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 15:30:52 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>

> Baloney. Exploiting the forwardable K5 tickets requires much less
> knowledge and skill than exploiting K4 tickets.

I think you overestimate how much skill is required to get AFS tokens
with a copied set of Kerberos tickets:

small-gods% rcp -x /tmp/tkt_ghudson_null pyramids:/tmp/tkt_ghudson_null
small-gods% rlogin pyramids
 
Warning: No Kerberos tickets obtained.
 
Athena Workstation (INDY) Version 8.0J Mon Jan 13 16:38:38 EST 1997
pyramids% aklog sipb athena dev
pyramids% tokens
 
Tokens held by the Cache Manager:
 
User's (AFS ID 3622) tokens for afs@dev.mit.edu [Expires Mar  7 01:25]
User's (AFS ID 3622) tokens for afs@athena.mit.edu [Expires Mar  7 01:25]
User's (AFS ID 3622) tokens for afs@sipb.mit.edu [Expires Mar  7 01:25]
   --End of list--
pyramids% touch foo
pyramids% rm foo

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