On Fri, Dec 06, 2019 at 11:15:46AM -0000, Jasper Siepkes wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the reply and sorry I missed the other question (my Google-foo is 
> apparently a bit weak today ;-).
> 
> > To cut it short, this is not possible because many login programs need to 
> > information about the user before the password or other credentials
> are available.
> 
> Would you folks be open to a patch which adds a flag to use the users own 
> Kerberos credentials for environments where hosts are less trusted (ie. 
> desktop deployments)? The documentation could add a warning that this won't 
> work for all deployment scenario's.
> 
> I understand this might be a problem for applications like ssh however those 
> kind of applications are not part of a normal office desktop deployment I 
> think. Those type of applications are usually part of server deployment 
> scenarios where the host itself is also more trusted then some desktop 
> sitting in an office. 

Hi,

sshd was just an example, afaik all login programs currently look up the
user before requesting credentials.

bye,
Sumit

> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Jasper
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