pam-krb5 3.6 released

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Wed Sep 19 16:41:05 EDT 2007


Sam Hartman <hartmans at mit.edu> writes:

> I think that's a mischaracterization of the problem.  You need this
> whenever you have a service that needs to verify passwords but that
> cannot be trusted with a Kerberos key of its own.  It seems like that's
> going to be much more common than just xscreensaver.

True, although xscreensaver is the only practical case that I've heard
about so far.  But I believe you that there are probably more.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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