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Re: al_login_allowed backwards incompatibility

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James M. Kretchmar)
Thu Jul 16 15:41:46 1998

To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:38:31 EDT."
             <199807161938.PAA26656@small-gods.mit.edu> 
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:41:36 EDT
From: "James M. Kretchmar" <kretch@MIT.EDU>


> Local accounts are a completely new feature.  They don't "allow local
> access."

Do you mean a newly supported feature?  They were certainly possible
before ... I didn't realize they were unsupported.

> 
> > The only example of this I've run across so far is that sshd will
> > not allow local user logins without an /etc/athena/access file.
> 
> Password authentication, or RSA?

Password authentication.  If you're not int *local_acct and you fail,
say, kerberos authentication, you lose.

kretch



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