Do people actually use HostbasedAuthentication? It needs several steps to enable and generally seems quite arcane by now. I wonder if this is something that could be trimmed away... -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Hi, On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 05:43:22PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:> Do people actually use HostbasedAuthentication? It needs several > steps to enable and generally seems quite arcane by now. I wonder > if this is something that could be trimmed away...We use it. gert -- USENET is *not* the non-clickable part of WWW! //www.muc.de/~gert/ Gert Doering - Munich, Germany gert at greenie.muc.de fax: +49-89-35655025 gert at net.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
On Mon, 19 Dec 2016, Christian Weisgerber wrote:> Do people actually use HostbasedAuthentication? It needs several > steps to enable and generally seems quite arcane by now. I wonder > if this is something that could be trimmed away...I use it a lot. -- Tim Rice Multitalents tim at multitalents.net
On Mon, 19 Dec 2016, Tim Rice wrote:> On Mon, 19 Dec 2016, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > > Do people actually use HostbasedAuthentication? It needs several > > steps to enable and generally seems quite arcane by now. I wonder > > if this is something that could be trimmed away... > > I use it a lot.I use it so that it gets tested regularly and doesn't break :)
On 12/19/2016 06:43 PM, Christian Weisgerber wrote:> Do people actually use HostbasedAuthentication? It needs several > steps to enable and generally seems quite arcane by now. I wonder > if this is something that could be trimmed away... >we are using it on the internal network of our clusters, where we have control over all the hosts. Once configured for the hosts it avoids the need for managing authorized_keys for each user. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 5254 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/attachments/20161220/68c197f0/attachment.bin>
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:00:41 -0800, Tim Rice wrote:> On Mon, 19 Dec 2016, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > > > Do people actually use HostbasedAuthentication? It needs several > > steps to enable and generally seems quite arcane by now. I wonder > > if this is something that could be trimmed away... > > I use it a lot. >In large clustered environments that do not use GSSAPI, it is important. -- Iain Morgan