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Re: login authentication

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (99700000)
Fri May 4 12:00:45 1990

Date: 4 May 90 15:25:42 GMT
From: agate!darkstar!ucscc.UCSC.EDU!haynes@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU  (99700000)
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU

In article <9005040829.AA27361@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> greg%duke.cs.unlv.edu@RELAY.CS.NET (Greg Wohletz) writes:
>In login.c is the following comment:
> ---
>shouldn't login be able to do mutual authentication and avoid this problem?
>Or am I missing something?
Stan Zanarotti  (srz@athena.mit.edu) sent me a patch to login.c that
does just this - tries to get a rcmd ticket for the machine you are
about to login to and has the machine decrypt it - so if he will permit
I can pass it on to you; or maybe he has sent it to you himself
already...

haynes@ucscc.ucsc.edu
haynes@ucscc.bitnet
..ucbvax!ucscc!haynes

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