On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 10:12:40AM -0700, Adam Megacz wrote:
> 
> Davor Ocelic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >>   2. Do we really need separate identities for separate machines?  My
> >>      understanding was that the whole service/[EMAIL PROTECTED] convention
> >>      was for preventing man-in-the-middle attacks for things like
> >>      kerberized telnet.  If we're only using kerberos in order to
> >>      support AFS, I don't know if it's really necessary.
> >
> > We use kerberos for everything?
> 
> I'm having trouble parsing this.
> 
> We don't use kerberos for: http, telnet, pop3/imap, or (AFAICT) any
> TCP-based protocol.  As far as I can tell, we use it only for PAM and
> AFS.  I'm okay with it staying this way; anything that needs to check
> user passwords should be using PAM.

Yes, only for PAM and afs, but since the kerberos module is 
added to /etc/pam.d/common-* files, all services that support
PAM automatically use kerberos. (and basically all services except
sudo and similar just include common-* files).



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