hi. A few months ago, Russ Allberry stepped down from co-maintaining krb5-appl. I'm reasonably happy to keep maintaining it, although when we thought about it, we cannot think of anyone using the package. It provides krb5 versions of rlogin, rsh, ftp and telnet. The telnet is insecure and should not be used; even with encryption turned on, it's only DES and has other design defects.
The other utilities kind of work, but ssh (with Kerberos authentication if desired) is a much better solution. My proposal is to drop the package from the archive, but I wanted to give others a chance to shout out that I'm wrong and that there's some compelling use-case I've missed. If someone can convince me that the packages are useful I'm happy to spend some effort on them. However, I don't think that's the case. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/00000143bfec0433-2cfb39b4-13f4-410f-8db1-52b5581c41bb-000...@email.amazonses.com
