Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1998 10:23:02 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: markm@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems with Kerberos and /etc/auth.conf Message-ID: <7633.907521782@time.cdrom.com>
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OK, so I'm just going down my sheet of "things that various people have reported as being most annoying in FreeBSD" and I'm looking at the 'ol "su -K" FAQ, that being the one where people inadvertently install kerberos (either by checking too many things off an install menu or building from sources) and it subsequently bites the non-internet connected by making su pause for a heck of a long time trying to contact a kerberos server which doesn't exist. The work-around is to use the -K flag, of course, but this apparently remains a well-kept secret despite having been mentioned many times on USENET and other forums, and people are basically putting their feet into this rabbit hole. We need to do something! :-) Since this issue comes up as well with the selection of whether to use MD5 or DES passwords when creating new password entries, I'm wondering if the two problems might not be solved by a single solution which defines the types of authentication mechanisms the system expects to use and what the defaults are. Someone also mentioned working on something like this, but did anything ever come of that? If not, is anyone interested in something coming of this? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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