On Monday 18 July 2005 18:03, Vladimir Terziev wrote: > your right about useless things, but making basic software to depend on > these useless things is a very bad idea. I'm sure, telnet & ssh are the > most used applications on any UNIX system, so they must not depend on any > third party software by default. If you need kerberized ssh or telnet, then > ok -- relink them to use kerberos, but why possible bugs in kerberos should > affect ssh & telnet when kerberos is not mandantory for their functioning ?
I think this is slightly disingenuous - what is the actual penalty for linking to Kerberos? It is easy to not use Kerberos if you don't want to, but it's a major pain in the ass to recompile ssh/telnet/etc when you do. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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