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Re: ftpd should allow protection to be required

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Thu Aug 15 18:08:23 1996

To: "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU>
Cc: brlewis@MIT.EDU, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Aug 1996 18:08:16 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Barry Jaspan"'s message of Thu, 15 Aug 96 10:51:10 -0400

>>>>> ""Barry" == "Barry Jaspan" <bjaspan@MIT.EDU> writes:

    "Barry>    My other beef with the protocol is that you can't use
    "Barry> kerberos encryption unless your principal is authorized to
    "Barry> login, so you can't just encrypt with kerberos and type a
    "Barry> password to login as somebody else.

    "Barry> rlogin/d has this same limitation, too, which I think is
    "Barry> very unfortunate.  We were going to fix it at OV but never
    "Barry> got around to it.

	I think there is a command line option that  is documented to
allow this, but I'm fairly certain the implementation is broken.  It
shouldn't be impossible to fix.

    "Barry> Barry


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