[xwin-discuss] Adding entries to /etc/publickey by default to get SecureRPC (and X11's SUN-DES-1 auth.) working ?

[Kyle McDonald]

Darren J Moffat wrote:
> Roland Mainz wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
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>>
>> Would be there any (technical) objections to modify "useradd" to add
>> entries to /etc/publickey by default (and assign a default host key for
>> the machines, too) ?
>> The idea is to get SecureRPC working by default on a plain Solaris
>> installation to allow users to use X11's SUN-DES-1 authentification
>> scheme instead of MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 stuff (e.g. use $ xhost +username@
>> # instead of shuffeling cookies around which should be much more
>> user-friendly) and/or use SecureRPC for NFS...
>>     
>
> Sounds like a great idea to me.
>
>   
So is this just the 'local files' version of what I'd already have if I 
was storing my userinfo in NIS+?
(and this is doable in NIS now too right?)