Subject: Re: secure telnet
To: Chas Williams <chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
From: Joe Laffey <joe@laffeycomputer.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/21/1998 14:32:28
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Chas Williams wrote:

> In message <v03130302b253c062c9d5@[137.78.84.130]>,"Henry B. Hotz" writes:
> >There is a kerberos 4 plugin for bettertelnet 1.x and a kerberos 5 plugin
> >for bettertelnet 2.0.  That will take care of the initial login from the
> >MacOS machine, but you can't rlogin or telnet from that session securely.
> >The security is not transitive, and none of the data content of the session
> >is secure.
> 
> yes and no.  you can get encrypted sessions with either the kerberos 4.x or
> 5.x plugin.  the ecnrypted sessions conceals the plaintext of the entire
> telnet session, making it safe to run ssh (or more encrypt telnet's)
> on the remote host.
> 

How do I set up kerberos (either version) to run on my NetBSD box? Is this
simply a matter of enabling the daemon or what? I don't need the fancy
ability to log into multiple hosts. I'm really just looking for a secure
session from my Mac over the net to my NetBSD Box.

Thanks!



Joe Laffey
LAFFEY Computer Imaging
St. Louis, MO
http://www.laffeycomputer.com
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