suggestion: move krb5 daemons to krb5-daemons subpackage

Elliot Lee sopwith at redhat.com
Tue Nov 23 21:45:18 UTC 2004


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:

> Someone's situation on the main fedora list (they were accidentally getting
> kerberized ftp instead of vsftpd as they expected) reminded me of this:
> 
> <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/beta/show_bug.cgi?id=81836>
> 
> Currently, there are several daemon programs in the krb5-workstation
> subpackage which one wouldn't necessarily expect or want on a workstation.
> (Obviously, telnetd, ftpd, kshd, klogind, etc. And probably login.krb5 too,
> since we've got PAM.). In this day and age, perhaps dropping them completely
> (in favor of fully-encrypted protocols like ssh) is the way to go

kshd/klogind are fully encrypted if set up correctly. They're also a lot
faster than ssh.

-- Elliot




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