Processing .k5login (another patch)

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at oracle.com
Wed Sep 1 17:51:56 EDT 2010


On Wed, Sep 01, 2010 at 05:29:32PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 16:07 -0400, Roland C. Dowdeswell wrote:
> > It is not always appropriate for users to be able to decide who is
> > allowed to login to their accounts.  I propose a krb5.conf setting
> > to disable this called ``use-k5login'' which defaults to the current
> > behaviour.
> 
> I'd be interested in feedback from others on whether this knob is
> desirable.

The user can always share their password and/or krb5 creds with
others...  Just sayin'.

I'd rather have an option for specifying the location of the k5login
file, so it can be moved into a location where the user cannot control
it.

Nico
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