[2206] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: rdist v6.1.3 patches -> krdist
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Stewart)
Wed Sep 4 12:10:26 1996
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Cc: John Stewart <jns@cisco.com>, rdist-dev@usc.edu, krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "03 Sep 1996 20:41:27 EDT."
<tslloerkt6v.fsf@bart-savagewood.mit.edu>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 1996 09:10:11 -0700
From: John Stewart <jns@cisco.com>
->
-> >>>>> "John" == John Stewart <jns@cisco.com> writes:
->
-> John> Attached are patches for rdist v6.1.3 that then generate
-> John> "krdist" - a version of rdist which uses Kerberos v5 krsh
-> John> and krshd for its transport mechanisms.
->
-> I can see some enviornments hwere a specially built version of
-> rdist for Kerberos is reasonable. However, since rdist already
-> provides a option to change the rsh binary used. This can b set to a
-> trivial shell script that uses Kerberos rsh and enables encryption.
-> At least with Beta 6 and our current source tree, this works with no
-> changes to either Kerberos or rdist.
I've found that complicating matters for users is about the worst
thing you can do, so providing a specially built version is a much
better answer. IMHO.
--J
