[7787] in Kerberos
Re: Mundane kerberos question: srvtab management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Thu Aug 15 18:35:56 1996
To: orion@iastate.edu (Phi H Truong)
Cc: kerberos@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Aug 1996 18:28:54 -0400
In-Reply-To: orion@iastate.edu's message of 15 Aug 1996 14:51:24 GMT
>>>>> "Phi" == Phi H Truong <orion@iastate.edu> writes:
Phi> Don't know about company but our client machines got the
Phi> srvtab with minimal human intervention. Actually I think I
Phi> know the company, DEC or rather the product DECAthena (aka
Phi> MIT Athena on steroid). Their way required the master key
Phi> and admin key which was kind of rediculous when one thought
Phi> of setting up lots of machines all over campus. We just
Phi> entered the machine into our database (we used moira service,
Phi> an Athenaism) and user (be it may professor, grad student,
Phi> ...etc) plug in the machine, perform remote installation,
Phi> answer two or three questions, go get some coffee, come back
Phi> in 15 mins and ready to login. Ok, so we are a bit lazy when
Phi> it comes to walking around campus.
How did you securely transport the srvtab from the Kerberos
server to the machine?
--Sam
