[4071] in Athena Bugs
krb rlogin if not in /etc/passwd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Rosenstein)
Mon Jan 29 12:09:28 1990
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 90 12:09:12 -0500
From: Mark Rosenstein <mar@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU, bug-new-dialup@MIT.EDU, rel_eng@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: [4062]
I've run into this bug as well, and hadn't figured out enough about it
to report it to bugs.
I think there's a serious problem when release engineering decides to
replace a working program with one built against newer libraries which
doesn't work. These decisions can't be made in isolation. I know
many more people who use rlogin with kerberos tickets than have every
tried an encrypted rlogin. And we could have kept both
functionalities by keeping the binary from the previous release.
Since you knew that you lost this functionality, there is no excuse
for not having it in the release notes having decided by yourself that
we didn't need this feature.
-Mark
