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Re: What is the status of kerberised ftp?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Prem Tirilok)
Thu Mar 30 13:17:25 1995

From: prem@npr.legent.com (Prem Tirilok)
To: marc@cam.ov.com (Marc Horowitz)
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 1995 12:07:27 -0600 (CST)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: prem@npr.legent.com
In-Reply-To: <199503301805.NAA00714@dun-dun-noodles.cam.ov.com> from "Marc Horowitz" at Mar 30, 95 01:05:13 pm


If you're asking why I did this as opposed to using the existing
GSSAPI, then the reason for that is 'cos GSSAPI wasn't supported in
the environment that I used to code V5 FTP.  Other than that, I
don't see any obvious and direct advantage.

- Prem

One stormy day Marc Horowitz wrote:
> 
> >> I have a draft version of the RFC that I'm writing for Kerberos V5 FTP.
> >> This is not yet in Internet-Draft standard.
> 
> Do you see any advantage to using ftp on krb5 directly, rather than
> using GSSAPI?
> 
> 		Marc
> 


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