As a relative newcomer to the kerberos world, I'm wondering what the future of tools like kerberised telnet, rsh, ftp and the like is. It seems from my viewpoint that OpenSSH (with the gssapi mode) and things like pam_krb5 have taken over from these tools. I note that recent security advisories for both distributions were in these 'utility' programs (telnet, ftpd etc) rather than in the core kerberos code. Do these tools still have wide use? Is there a plan to phase them out, or maintain them separately to the main kerberos distribution? (This was brought up by a look we are taking on samba-technical about what proportion of Heimdal to import, with a strong view to avoid including these apps). Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Samba Developer, SuSE Labs, Novell Inc. http://suse.de Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
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