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Re: remote kpasswd

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave McGuire)
Tue Nov 22 01:21:24 1994

Date: Tue, 22 Nov 1994 01:07:05 -0500
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@rocinante.digex.net>
To: *Hobbit* <hobbit@asylum.sf.ca.us>
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: remote kpasswd (hobbit@asylum.sf.ca.us)

On November 21, you wrote:
>    ... users are coming into through your terminal servers.  That way, a user
>    can just execute the regular kpasswd program 
> 
> Sounds like plaintext passwords going over the wire, unless I misunderstood.

  Uhh....*scratch scratch scratch*

  Hmm.

  Yeah, I guess you're right...Pardon me... *sheepish look*

  Unless, of course, the terminal servers implement encrypted
protocols to talk to the hosts...which I doubt...


                       -Dave

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