Re: AFS - The Ultimate Sulution? -- What is the point?

["Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery () ece cmu edu>]

On Sep 17, 2006, at 11:05 , Brian Eaton wrote:

> > As you said this requires that the AFS-Server is being kept up to  
> > date.
> > But the Images wouldn't have to be. Apart from this AFS hasn't had a
> > major security-issue in the past several years.
>
> This is odd.  MIT kerberos releases security patches a few times a
> year, doesn't AFS need those patches?

Yes and no --- the last patchset, for example, was to the r-commands  
and telnet, IIRC.  The correct answer to those is "just say no".

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brandon s. allbery    [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]     allbery () kf8nh com
system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery () ece cmu edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university    KF8NH



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