The closest thing to Kerberos at one client is Active Directory. 

On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Phillip Moore wrote:

> 
> Oh, I'm not dropping PAM.  It's perfectly reasonable as coded.
> 
> The issue is just the password caching.  The code's there, and it works, but 
> I'd prefer NOT to do something that makes security pros scoff at us.
> 
> Baldwin, do you have kerberos infrastructure you can leverage in your 
> environment?
> 
> On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:36 PM, Baldwin Sung 宋志瑞 <[email protected]> wrote:
> IMHO, the next version of EFS should only support Kerberos. If anybody wants 
> to keep the password caching, stay with the current version of EFS. Keep the 
> PAM support, who knows what else might be plugged in later on.
> 
> On Jun 10, 2010, at 11:26 PM, Phillip Moore wrote:
> 
> > Now that we have Kerberos authentication, I don't want to rip out the PAM 
> > support, since non-Kerberos enabled sites should be to use EFS.
> >
> > But, given the ugliness and complexity of the password caching code, and 
> > the fact that every last security expert won't like it (and we don't have 
> > much grounds to argue with them), why not just trash it?
> >
> > IOW, you'll still be able to authenticate password in efsd via PAM, but the 
> > client will require you to submit the password every time, instead of 
> > caching it (or attempting to) in ~/.efsconfig.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
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