From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 17 23:51:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49E637B803; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 23:51:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nbm@sunesi.net) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 12LiBX-000KtC-00; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:50:43 +0200 Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:50:43 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: "Matthew N. Dodd" Cc: Alfred Perlstein , current@FreeBSD.org, Mark Murray , committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Crypto progress! (And a Biiiig TODO list) Message-ID: <20000218095042.A80194@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <20000217181543.G21720@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu 2000-02-17 (21:03), Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Yes, but the benifits of a correct implementation are quite awesome, > > a centralized logging place to dole out authentication and potentially > > administratively shutdown/lockout accounts if a brute force attempt (or > > other abuse) is detected. > > You've just described Kerberos. No, he just described something, amongst many many other things that might not be useful for mere mortals, that Kerberos can do. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@rucus.ru.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message