[2163] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: rlogin bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Hornstein)
Mon Aug 19 12:51:00 1996
To: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 19 Aug 1996 12:35:22 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 19 Aug 1996 12:50:53 -0400
From: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
> * If rlogin -f fails and you aren't encrypting, it's not clear to me
> you want to execute UCB login in preference to a Kerberized rlogin
> without tickets being forwarded.
>
>I think if krlogin fails for any reason, you never want to execute UCB
>rlogin.
I disagree. At least falling back to UCB rlogin when you get ECONNREFUSED
makes it easy to have your users use the same binary when connecting to
Kerberos and non-Kerberos hosts.
--Ken
