Re: cannot use kerberos

[Mudit Sachdev]

Hi Larry

Sorry for troubling you again. Just wanted to find out do you use the CVS 
systems in your organisation or are you involved in development of new 
versions of CVS.
The reason I am asking this is because my manager wants me to verify this 
fact from a few users so that we can make an intelligent decision.

Also how can I encrypt the passwords in the password file what method would 
that be?
Thanks
Regards
Mudit

> From: address@hidden (Larry Jones)
> To: address@hidden (Mudit Sachdev)
> CC: address@hidden
> Subject: Re: cannot use kerberos
> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 17:43:00 -0400 (EDT)
>
> Mudit Sachdev writes:
> >
> > Thanks for the solution. Just wanted to confirm that it is a standard 
> way to
> > deploy CVS without kerberos. If yes what are we surrendering by not 
> using
> > kerberos I mean the functionality wise?
> > Could there be any problems that you know of if we do not use kerberos?
>
> Yes, nearly everyone uses CVS without Kerberos, which is why no one
> noticed the autoconf problems that caused your difficulty (they've been
> fixed in the current development version for some time).  What you're
> giving up is the ability to use the "Direct connection with GSSAPI" and
> "Direct connection with kerberos" methods of connecting to a remote
> repository: <http://www.cvshome.org/docs/manual/cvs_2.html#SEC26>.
> These methods provide some additional security for remote repositories,
> but they're not much used and thus not well tested, and they're almost
> certainly more trouble than they're worth unless you're already set up
> to use GSSAPI and/or Kerberos for other things.
>
> -Larry Jones
>
> Hey Doc, for 10 bucks I'll make sure you see those kids in the
> waiting room again real soon! -- Calvin


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