[10201] in Hotline Meeting
Re: installing servtab on foreign rs6000 to kerberize rlogin from athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tom@MIT.EDU)
Fri Aug 21 11:50:42 1992
From: tom@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 11:50:27 EDT
To: khyung@MIT.EDU
Cc: hotline@MIT.EDU
Cc: netreq@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [3901] in netreq
The athena rlogin program first attempts to perform a "kerberos
rlogin" to the remote host. Using kerberos, the remote host can
authenticate you rather than having you type your password across the
network in clear text. Once the remote host knows who you are, it can
then decide to allow you to log in, usually via an access control
list.
The srvtab is necessary for authentication. If you'd like to know how
this all works, there is documentation available in the kerberos
locker.
If the rs6000 in question is part of MIT, we'd gladly give you a
srvtab for it. However you would also need binaries that understand
kerberos on the remote host. If you wanted to pursue this I would
recommend you look at an athena workstation and the remote.add script
in the mkserv locker (which turns on remote access for privately owned
athena workstations). Unfortunately there are few people who know how
to do this sort of thing to non athena machines.
- Tom
