[5026] in Kerberos
Re: Secure telnet/PPP/Kerberos/STEL/... (was Re: STEL: Secure TELnet -- Call for Beta Testers)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry J. Hughes Jr.)
Sun Apr 23 17:12:37 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 22 Apr 1995 18:41:50 GMT
From: hughes@logos.ucs.indiana.edu (Larry J. Hughes Jr.)
In article <9504220419.AA00410@perdiem.cygnus.com>, <eichin@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>ftp is perhaps a better example of a case where the protocol matters
>more than the code -- the only kerberized (or gssapi'zed :-) ftp's
>that I know of are standard command line clients, but given either a
>Web Browser or a client with a user interface, like ncftp, why would
>anyone want to use the standard clients, if they had a choice about it?
On the web browser side, it's connectionless mode of operation is
very painful (and sometimes just plain unusable) for busy/popular
servers, or those bottlenecked with slow Internet connections.
This tends to limit my choices (although I certainly prefer ncftp
as you say).
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Larry J. Hughes, Jr. hughes@indiana.edu
Indiana University http://copper.ucs.indiana.edu/~hughes
