[110] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: authenticated cron jobs?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Honeyman)
Wed May 1 22:34:20 1991
Date: Wed, 01 May 91 21:39:41 -0400
From: Peter Honeyman <honey@citi.umich.edu>
To: Info-AFS@transarc.com
when craig says
It's generally a hard problem.
"it" is the problem of authenticating anonymous processes, of
which cron is just one case. ordinary unix authentication says
"since you were able to set /etc/cron setuid root in the first
place, you must be trustworthy" and this sticks with cron evermore.
but in /afs, nothing is trusted forever!
peter
