Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] kerberos

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Quoting Bruce Smith <bw...@re...>:

> I'm trying to join a DL 1.3 box to an AD domain for the first time and
> my first impression was DL doesn't contain kerberos since none of the
> commands are in the default $PATH.  Then I found that the binaries are
> in /usr/bin/krb5/ and /usr/sbin/krb5/.
>
> On Ubuntu and CentOS (and probably others), the kerberos binaries
> reside in /usr/[s]bin/.  Why does DL have them in their own
> directories?
>
> Is it because a few kerberos'ied binaries conflict with their regular
> counterparts (ftp, telnet, rcp, rlogin, rsh)?.  Should we move (or
> link?) the rest of the krb5 binaries into the regular /usr/[s]bin/
> PATH?

Yes you're correct, back when we added it, the krb5 files caused some  
conflicts since they overwrote other binaries.
We could try your suggestion.

>
> On a side note, I remember Heiko replying to people who ask about
> telnetd in DL;  it's not included because it's not secure.  The
> correct answer is the kerberos'ized telnetd is here:
> /usr/sbin/krb5/telnetd, which does unencrypted plain text logins too
> (just tested it).   ;-)

Oops. ;-)

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Regards
   Heiko Zuerker
   http://www.devil-linux.org


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