Re: [netatalk-admins] DES authentication - how do I use it ?


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] DES authentication - how do I use it ?
From: Paul J. Schinder (schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov)
Date: Fri May 15 1998 - 08:54:11 EDT


At 2:17 PM +0100 5/15/98, nobroin@esoc.esa.de wrote:

} Hello all,
} I've implemented a number of netatalk installations. For the first
} time, I now want to use netatalk to provide asip services over the Internet
} so I'd like to use DES authentication - can't have plaintext passwords
} wandering the Internet, after all. However, I don't have libdes.a or des.h
} as detailed in the Makefile. Where can I get those for Solaris 2.5 ?

The instructions on how to install DES also tell you where to get the
library. I don't remember now, somewhere in Australia, I believe. Look in
README.ASUN.

}
} Also, do I have to have something special on the Mac to support DES
} passwords ? I saw mention of a special UAM for use with Kerberos and AFS
} but nothing about DES.

No. Once it's installed, the Chooser will automatically use it.

}
}
} Kindest regards,
}
}
} Niall O Broin
}
} UNIX Network Administrator Ground Systems Engineering
} Department
} European Space Operations Centre nobroin@esoc.esa.de
} Darmstadt, Germany Ph./Fax +49 6151 90 3619/2179

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Paul J. Schinder
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Code 693, Greenbelt, MD 20771
schinder@leprss.gsfc.nasa.gov



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