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Re: delegating principal creation to a web process

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Russ Allbery)
Thu Mar 20 14:55:45 2008

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	Wilkinson's message of "Thu\, 20 Mar 2008 18\:44\:49 +0000")
From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:54:58 -0700
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Simon Wilkinson <simon@sxw.org.uk> writes:

> It's not clear from your description how you check that the script is
> creating the 'correct' account name for a particular user - nor how you
> protect against denial of service attacks, or attacks which create
> 'magic' account names (root, <blah>/ admin, anything else your site has
> in a wildcard)

http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/kadmin-remctl/ may be helpful in that
respect.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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