Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 09:28:47 -0700 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@freefall.FreeBSD.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: rkinit added to eBones Message-ID: <199509151628.JAA23343@aslan.cdrom.com>
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I've just finished importing rkinit into the U.S. eBones of -current. Rkinit allows you to forward kerberos tickets securely so that you can remotely rlogin or telnet without having to type a password. For those of you who are going to use rkinit to pass tickets to non FreeBSD machines, just a few words of warning. The original rkinit didn't handle the case when multiple rkinit messages arived in a single packet. During one portion of the protocol, the client sends three messages back to back without requiring a response from the server. FreeBSD seems to always deliver these in one packet. The old rkinit would just hang at this point since the server would skip a portion of the protocol and close up shop. The version I imported includes a re-write of the main rpc routine to avoid this problem, but it still cannot work with the older, broken servers. The FreeBSD code will complain about the premature EOF so you can identify machines still running the old code. UC Berkeley, for example is still running the broken code, but I have submitted the patch to their Software Warehouse so that condition may change. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== Software Developer - Walnut Creek CDROM FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================
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