cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/scripts crypto-install.sh

Juli Mallett jmallett at FreeBSD.org
Wed Apr 30 11:17:47 PDT 2003


* Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> [ Date: 2003-04-30 ]
	[ w.r.t. Re: cvs commit: src/release Makefile src/release/scripts crypto-install.sh ]
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:54:19AM -0700, Mark Murray wrote:
> > markm       2003/04/30 10:54:19 PDT
> > 
> >   FreeBSD src repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> >     release              Makefile 
> >     release/scripts      crypto-install.sh 
> >   Log:
> >   KerberosIV removal. Also crunch down the "krb5" distribution into
> >   "secure".
> 
> Hmm, is it really a good idea to combine crypto and krb5?  krb5 is, I
> suspect, a rarely-used feature in the wild.

When I reported that k5su could be used to get around the wheel
group limitations of su, I was pointed to the fact that they are
(were) different distributions and as such, people isntalling
k5su setuid would know what to expect.  That has been dealt with,
now, but regardless I think this is backwards from such an idea.
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