Do people use HostbasedAuthentication?

Iain Morgan imorgan at nas.nasa.gov
Wed Dec 21 05:46:59 AEDT 2016


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.

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Iain Morgan


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