From owner-freebsd-security Sat Feb 1 19:58:51 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BABFB37B401 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 19:58:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from gw.nectar.cc (gw.nectar.cc [208.42.49.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3301943F43 for ; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 19:58:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@celabo.org) Received: from opus.celabo.org (opus.celabo.org [10.0.1.111]) by gw.nectar.cc (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9A9E2D; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:58:47 -0600 (CST) Received: by opus.celabo.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id A140D5A22; Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:56:17 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2003 21:56:17 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: bas Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: krb5-realm.com Message-ID: <20030202035617.GB14640@opus.celabo.org> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , bas , freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3E3B1D71.21CFBD42@ursine.com> <20030201015129.GA27949@rfc822.net> <20030131181815.A42597@greg.cex.ca> <3E3B9B03.6ACE7B96@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E3B9B03.6ACE7B96@xs4all.nl> X-Url: http://www.celabo.org/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i-ja.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 11:01:39AM +0100, bas wrote: > isnt it a bad thing if every sshd on the world ends up contacting > krb5-realm.com by default? is this also true for newer versions of sshd > (with kerberos disabled)? i mean it may make the owners of > krb5-realm.com powerful beings. sounds a bit .NET to me. Well it could conceivably cause breakage (as described), but nothing worse. The krb5-realm.com domain administrator cannot possibly leverage the situation in order to subvert authentication. Cheers, -- Jacques A. Vidrine http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message