[nycbug-talk] interesting OpenSSH development

[Marc Spitzer]

On 11/16/06, Peter Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
>
> > On 11/16/06, Peter Wright <pete at nomadlogic.org> wrote:
> >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/86266/focus=86268
> >>
> >> I'm sure most folks on talk@ have seen this.  I'm pretty excited to tell
> >> you the truth.  trying to properly maintain ssh key's on large clusters
> >> is
> >> pain at best.  beck at open obviously had some insight - I'm hoping that
> >> the
> >> end product of this work is something positive (see Andre's response to
> >> Bob).
> >>
> >> -pete
> >
> > Why not just use kerberos?  ssh supports kerberos as does a bunch of
> > other services.  After all if you need to set up a server anyway why
> > not set up a server for more then just ssh?
> >
>
> <sarcasm>
> gee never thought of that
> </sarcasm>

it was more of a question on why come up with another "special"
security tech that is just not needed, the problem is effectivly
solved so why not just use it?

marc

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> -pete
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> --
> ~~oO00Oo~~
> Peter Wright
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