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Re: Security Practices question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@yuriev.com)
Thu Oct 3 13:11:00 2002

Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:11:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: alex@yuriev.com
To: just me <matt@snark.net>
Cc: Scott Francis <darkuncle@darkuncle.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.33L0.0210030950140.26561-100000@pants.snark.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> 
> You still haven't given me a single example of what these "problems"
> are. Just hand-waving and talk about the "right" way is.

It is rather simple and had been addressed lots of times. I really fail to
understand why people do keep re-inventing the wheel.

Give your admins crypto cards. Make sure that crypto-card service talks
GSS-API.
Have a GSS-API service provider
Configure all your systems to use GSSAPI interface.

So, why are we re-inventing the wheel again?

Alex

P.S. Dont claim that crypto cards are expensive. If you have 40000 Unix
machines, you can AFFORD to give everyone a crypto card.


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