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kerberized tty login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Salvatore Valente)
Sun Jan 23 11:54:02 1994
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 23 Jan 1994 11:53:43 -0500
From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
So, it occured to me that most people running the linux-athena stuff
(but not athena xdm) would probably like to log in and get tickets
automatically. So, on keesh, I did:
cd /bin
mv login login.real
ln -s /etc/athena/login.krb login
and tried to login, and couldn't. So, I rebuilt login.krb with
-DSHADOW_PWD and -lshadow and now I can log in and get tickets
automatically. I guess I'll document/recommend this. First, I'd like
to be sure that the new login.krb will work on systems that don't use
shadow passwords (it should fall back to /etc/passwd if there's no
/etc/shadow.) It would also be nice if the kerberos configure scripts
would check for /etc/shadow and if it's there, add -DSHADOW_PWD and
-lshadow. It would also be nice if all this confusion about whether
shadow routines should go in libc would be sorted out. (Personally,
I'd like to see the shadow stuff disappear off the face of the earth,
but it's unlikely to happen.)
Have a nice day.
-Sal.
