[OpenAFS-devel] ta-rauth, inetd, and rsh for linux works...

Neulinger, Nathan nneul@umr.edu
Tue, 9 Oct 2001 11:34:06 -0500


The r*, inetd, etc. in openafs are OLD and VERY insecure. Use kerberos5.

-- Nathan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Floering [mailto:floering@us.ibm.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 11:15 AM
> To: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> Subject: [OpenAFS-devel] ta-rauth, inetd, and rsh for linux works...
> 
> 
> So why is it disabled from the linux build?  I have made very minimal
> changes to the source (one or two lines) and have 
> successfully ran both the
> daemon and rsh and passed a token to and from Transarc afs 
> AIX boxes and
> among linux boxes.  Are we holding out in favor of a "grand 
> scheme" that I
> don't know about such as integrating ta-rauth into xinetd or 
> the regular
> linux inetd?  Personally, I have no problems running two inetd-like
> processes on a box as long as I can get token passing!
> 
> Developers please comment.
> 
> Regards,
> Ben
> 
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