[1603] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: appl/bsd will lose rhosts authentication
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
Fri Aug 16 17:43:34 1996
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Ken Raeburn <raeburn@cygnus.com>
Date: 16 Aug 1996 17:43:09 -0400
In-Reply-To: Sam Hartman's message of Thu, 15 Aug 1996 22:45:36 -0400
Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU> writes:
> Apparently, we provide a ruserok replacement that attempts to
> deal with mode 600 .rhosts on NFS filesystems. I'm unconvinced that
> rhosts authentication is worth this complexity, especially if it's
> broken enough for people to be reporting bugs in it.
I've already disabled that code at Cygnus, because I had trouble
getting a tree built for profiling on SunOS with it enabled.
> I don't know when I'll get around to doing this--possibly this
> weekend, possibly a bit later. Anyway, I'll test kshd and klogind and
> make sure that nothing breaks, and may just wait until after the next
> release to check this in.
We've noticed no problems with it.
