[OpenAFS-devel] How can I use rsh to connect with AFS

[Derek Atkins]

I certainly don't build the broken/old/unsupported/insecure modules
for my Red Hat packages, and I know Sam doesn't on Debian.

-derek

"Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

> Well, we have gone so far as to require the end user to take specific effort
> to "enable" an "insecure" option to even get them to build...
> 
> Not sure though - what options are being used to build the binary releases?
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Harald Barth [mailto:haba@pdc.kth.se] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2002 11:53 AM
> > To: shadow@dementia.org
> > Cc: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] How can I use rsh to connect with AFS
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > There exist a bunch of forwarding mechanisms for tickets and 
> > tokens which all
> > have different problems, some have bad security, some have no 
> > security, some
> > depend on the IP addr some on the endianess of the computers 
> > involved, just to
> > mention some.
> > 
> > Not passing the tokens is better than passing them with some kind of
> > encryption over whatever channel.
> > 
> > As there nowadays exist krb5 enabled r* utilities which can be
> > configured to forward tickets and get tokens from that tickets, I 
> > suggest scrapping all odd ticket or token passing mechanisms,
> > including the r* stuff currently distributed with openafs.
> > 
> > OK, I like to paint things black and white.
> > 
> > Harald.
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