Since Fedora is not aimed at enterpise/business ..

Pekka Savola pekkas at netcore.fi
Wed Oct 1 16:26:05 UTC 2003


On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 15:54, Bill Anderson wrote:
> > Does this mean we can now stop requiring kerberos in everything that can
> > have it required?
> 
> I would like to see more Kerberos support for Linux in general. I think
> Kerberos is a blessing. Just imagine logging onto the network and being
> able to ssh into any box, read your mail stored in a Cyrus-IMAPD server
> without supplying a password, modifying your contacts stored into a
> central LDAP server without supplying any credentials or DN, and so on.
> 
> Kerberos is deployed all over my boxes and I find it a pleasure to use,
> although it can be a little tricky to set up. I would like to see far
> better and wider support for it. Don't know how people can still live
> with public keys and passwords when managing multiple servers.

I guess insecurity is usually easy to use ;-)

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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