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login passwords from kerberos?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joergen Haegg)
Tue Jan 7 04:29:54 1992

From: jh@efd.lth.se (Joergen Haegg)
Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1992 09:53:34 MET
To: kerberos@Athena.MIT.EDU

Is it possible to make the login-program in the telnet-directory
to use the kerberos password instead of /etc/passwd?

Or is that still considered unsafe?
(By spoofing the kerberos server.)

How has kerberos 5 solved the problem with public workstations
where the srvtab isn't safe from single-user reboot?

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