package: wnpp severity: wishlist owner: hartm...@debian.org name: krb5-appl URL: http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/dist/krb5-appl License: MIT Kerberos license (roughly MIT license plus a requirement that if you modify the software you must mark it as modified) description: Contains fairly ancient versions of telnetd, ftpd, rsh and rlogin that support Kerberos authentication
Up until the upcoming Kerberos 1.8 release, these applications were part of the main krb5 tree. They are kind of old and crufty, but attempts to kill them off have met with users (and Debian users) who say they are still valuable in certain environments. Reasons cited include that the code base is simpler than things like ssh, it works and is in use, etc. My belief that the security of the rsh and rlogin programs is quite good, although the telnet and telnetd are well below current security standards. However upstream krb5 doesn't want to maintain the applicatinos as part of the main source tree. So, they are being split out. Since Debian users still want them, I'm going to package them. They've been in Debian for years already, so I think this should not be a problem. To look at the WIP packages see git://git.debian.org/git/pkg-k5-afs/debian-krb5-appl.git
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