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Date:      Sun, 13 Mar 2005 16:54:11 -0600
From:      Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kerberos  problems
Message-ID:  <20050313225411.GH60575@seekingfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <3089.192.168.16.79.1110735009.squirrel@www.orbweavers.co.uk>
References:  <20050313155855.GD60575@seekingfire.com> <3089.192.168.16.79.1110735009.squirrel@www.orbweavers.co.uk>

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On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 05:30:09PM -0000, martinmcc@orbweavers.co.uk wrote:
> what I was assuming would happen when I try to telnet in without a ticket
> (i.e. with running kinit) was that I would get asked for a
> username/password, and then I would get issued a ticket, rather than
> manually having to kinit first.

That would require every client application, like telnet, to support
kinit functionality.

Think of kinit as "logging onto the network", something that must be
performed in a secure way only once per work session.

-T


-- 
Zen is like looking for spectacles that are sitting on your nose.
	- Zen saying



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