Re: Heimdal 1.1 telnetd broken under Solaris 10

["Henry B. Hotz" <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>]

On Mar 3, 2008, at 2:32 AM, Harald Barth wrote:

>
>> Doesn't the Solaris 10 telnetd do Kerberos? That lowers the
>> importance of Heimdal's considerably, I think.
>
> Does it really matter what Solaris' in.telnetd does support?
> I have seen considerable evidence in the past that it does a
> lot more than it should.
>
> Just one example:
>> CERT VU#881872 at http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/881872
>> CVE-2007-0882 at http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi? 
>> name=CVE-2007-0882
>
> Harald.

This is getting off topic, but generically Kerberos is better  
integrated in Solaris than other OS's.  I'm thinking MacOS and RedHat  
in particular.  I suspect Debian is much better though.

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