Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 08:55:12 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG (Satoshi Asami), committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Security and other facilities at WC CDROM - the plan. Message-ID: <199809240655.IAA21484@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Wed, 23 Sep 1998 16:57:28 MST." <199809232357.QAA04981@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199809232357.QAA04981@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote: > > * a) Those users who use ssh and have set up a no-password login > > * will continue to enjoy that facility. > > > > Will typing passwords over ssh work? There are some times (quite > > often, actually) that my home directory is not available and I have to > > type my password to get into paddock. > > It should; the connection is encrypted already at that point. Sure - but SSH is doing the authentication against the kerberos database, not /etc/passwd-and-friends. Kerberos has a different encoding scheme, so the password will need to be reregistered. A pain, I am sorry, but necessary. I'll try to set up a tool to assist here. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org
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