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Date:      Wed, 14 Jun 2000 12:33:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Tushar Patel <tpatel@ecpi.com>
Cc:        Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kerberos for POP, radius, ftp etc
Message-ID:  <200006141633.MAA03515@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200006141451.JAA08402@ecpi.com>
References:  <200006141417.e5EEHi431392@cwsys.cwsent.com> <200006141451.JAA08402@ecpi.com>

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<<On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 09:51:38 -0500 (CDT), Tushar Patel <tpatel@ecpi.com> said:

> So, how do people change the authentication process to kerberos without
> involving the end user?

Most places use a registration procedure.  For example, in the Athena
Computing Environment, there are registration servers which have write
access to the Kerberos KDC; new users log in using a special account
and prove their identity using an out-of-band mechanism.  (We don't do
anything like that here at LCS.)

One of the hacks that used to run here went in the opposite direction:
if a user was able to authenticate with Kerberos, their local password
would be changed automatically to be the same as their Kerberos
password.

-GAWollman



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