Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:55:57 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Vladimir Terziev <vladimir.terziev@sun-fish.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk, Roman Kurakin <rik@cronyx.ru> Subject: Re: Remove Heimdal Kerberos from my FreeBSD Message-ID: <200507182055.57651.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20050718113333.4ab7ebb5.vlady@sun-fish.com> References: <20050716194319.4375451a.vlady@sun-fish.com> <42DB59F9.80408@cronyx.ru> <20050718113333.4ab7ebb5.vlady@sun-fish.com>
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--nextPart13680153.z8i0WlPmiy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 18 July 2005 18:03, Vladimir Terziev wrote: > your right about useless things, but making basic software to depend on > these useless things is a very bad idea. I'm sure, telnet & ssh are the > most used applications on any UNIX system, so they must not depend on any > third party software by default. If you need kerberized ssh or telnet, th= en > ok -- relink them to use kerberos, but why possible bugs in kerberos shou= ld > affect ssh & telnet when kerberos is not mandantory for their functioning= ? I think this is slightly disingenuous - what is the actual penalty for link= ing=20 to Kerberos? It is easy to not use Kerberos if you don't want to, but it's a major pain = in=20 the ass to recompile ssh/telnet/etc when you do. =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart13680153.z8i0WlPmiy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC25HF5ZPcIHs/zowRAssGAJ9ZelXvyyTut2eFzSNw4xPDVrfyFgCgphHq iGOMdlZPwnWDfXyoG7yHhlw= =7not -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart13680153.z8i0WlPmiy--
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