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Re: Secure Distributed Password System?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Wed Jul 5 12:38:26 1995
From: iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox)
To: robert@aurora.carleton.ca (Rob Hardy)
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 1995 08:32:13 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-security@tarsier.cv.nrao.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950703183500.2272F-100000@aurora.carleton.ca> from "Rob Hardy" at Jul 3, 95 06:41:21 pm
> Security Concerns:
> packet sniffing
> clients can't be trusted with whole password file
> clients are booting via bootp
> clients are diskless
>
> Basically I want the security that shadow gives over the net.
>
> Is this possible with linux currently and does anyone know how do I do it?
Kerberos - you've basically listed all the major points of it 8).
In the USA it should be easy to get, in europe you'll need to build it from
E-Bones and other encryptions (available), or get the US one via unofficial
channels.
Alan
