[909] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Status update
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Wed Jul 26 14:13:15 1995
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: jweiss@MIT.EDU, pc-dialup@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 1995 12:53:03 EDT."
<199507261653.MAA01575@all-purpose-gunk.near.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 14:12:23 EDT
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
>> > I don't think we should port the hacked rkinit, at this point we
>> > (will) have a kerberized telnetd which should suffice.
>>
>> What's the model here? Should the NetBSD dialup be able to do
>> everything the other dialups can do, or not?
>>
>> Specifically, rkinitd is necessary if people want to be able to rsh
>> to the dialup to execute various commands without logging in...
I believe that the main reason that we installed the hacked rkinit is
that ktelnet wasn't available at the time and we wanted to supply a
kerberized way to log in.
Jonathon
