cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/scripts crypto-install.sh

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 03:17:04PM -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> <<On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 11:16:03 -0700, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> said:
> 
> > Hmm, is it really a good idea to combine crypto and krb5?  krb5 is, I
> > suspect, a rarely-used feature in the wild.
> 
> ``The wild'' contains lots and lots of Windows Active Directory
> implementations.
> 
> For any operation larger than a few dozen hosts, Kerberos is a great
> deal easier to manage than n^2 SSH key combinations.  (This presumes
> that you have a working version of Kerberized SSH, which at present
> means OpenSSH 3.4 with the patches.)  Even for relatively small
> installations, the convenience factor can be significant, particularly
> when integrated with other operating systems infrastructure.

I'm quite prepared to believe it can be very convenient and useful,
and I know several people who use it, but I still maintain it is not
widely used.

Kris
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