[6184] in Kerberos
Re: K5 recvauth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Wed Nov 8 18:25:25 1995
To: hyc@locus.com (Howard Chu)
Cc: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>, kerberos@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Nov 1995 14:18:41 PST."
<9511072218.AA25344@troy.la.locus.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 18:10:23 EST
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
>>>>> "Howard" == Howard Chu <hyc@locus.com> writes:
Howard> I understand that use of sendauth/recvauth is not
Howard> encouraged, but in this case I have no choice - the
Howard> Kerberized POP servers of the world already use
Howard> recvauth. Whether or not I use sendauth is irrelevant -
Howard> the K5 recvauth demands that my client send the correct
Howard> application-version string, or else it disallows my
Howard> authentication attempt.
This is currently true. The correct solution is to rewrite kpopd to use GSSAPI.
--Sam
