[6128] in Kerberos
Re: How does telnet/telnetd work compared with sclient/sclientd ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Howard Chu)
Sat Nov 4 20:03:02 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 4 Nov 1995 16:50:02 -0800
From: hyc@troy.la.locus.com (Howard Chu)
In article <mahoney-3110952028490001@maijstral.marlboro.edu>,
Jim Mahoney <mahoney@marlboro.edu> wrote:
%I have been confused about how the kerberos telnet client and telnetd server
%function, in terms of what the client needs installed at the remote site
%to be able to run in auth and/or encrypt mode.
%I understand, I think, how the sample client/server works, which requires
%that the client be installed with
% 1) an entry in the kerberos database, including the name of the client
%machine,
% 2) an srvtab "password" on the client machine.
%However, is this also required for telnet? If I'm at some remote site,
%half-way across the world from my home institution, and want to telnet
%back to my office workstation, and both both machines are running
%some form of kerberos, how can the remote machine already have installed
%an srvtab that mentions my home machine by name?
The srvtab is required on the machine where the server executes, not the
client. The srvtab entries only need to mention the server machine, not
any of the client machines that will connect to it.
--
Howard Chu Principal Member of Technical Staff
hyc@locus.com Locus Computing Corporation
