[54] in Kerberos
re: SUN RPC & XDR
jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sun Aug 9 21:20:18 1987
From Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU Sat Aug 16 11:05:58 1986
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 86 11:02:09 EDT
Subject: re: SUN RPC & XDR
To: spm, bcn
Cc: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@athena.MIT.EDU>, kerberos
In-Reply-To: Bill Sommerfeld <wesommer@athena.MIT.EDU>'s message of Sat, 09 Aug 86 15:22:07 -0500
From: Jerome H. Saltzer <Saltzer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Originating-Client: <Saltzer-PC>
> Since the authenticator is decyphered by the server-side library
> before the service is identifed, a catch-all "rpc" or "sunrpc"
> principal for each host involved will be needed to get this to work.
> There may be a way around this if we're not afraid to do some sort of
> "modularity violation" in the Kerberos-specific code.
Steve and Cliff,
Have you any thoughts on the right way to deal with this problem? It
comes up any time one tries to integrate Kerberos directly with the
transport level protocol rather than the service level protocol.
Jerry
