[2184] in Kerberos
Re: Kerberos' rlogin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jon@MIT.EDU)
Thu Sep 10 10:08:32 1992
From: jon@MIT.EDU
To: yuan@syl.dl.nec.com (Ruixi Yuan)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 09 Sep 92 22:10:41 +0000.
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 92 09:47:37 BST
Check to be sure that rlogin is running setuid root. It needs to bind
a "privileged" port as a throwback to its weak pre-kerberos
authentication mechanism. (In this day and age, I think the concept is
silly, privileged ports just don't exist in reality any more.)
-- Jon
