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Re: Kerberizing AIX for Use as an InfoPrint Manager Platform
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Thu Jun 22 07:57:02 2000
Message-Id: <10006221157.AA05265@MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 00 07:55:43 EDT
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.Edu>
To: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Message of Wed, 21 Jun 00 13:19:11 EDT from
<RCLARKE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
This is great news, Rocklyn. Thanks for moving the kerb efforts along!
-Dave
On Wed, 21 Jun 00 13:19:11 EDT you said:
>Hi Peter,
>
>I spoke with Tom Yu yesterday and as a result I have bad news and good news.
>
>Bad News: It seems that Bill Cattey's information about Tom having an AIX
> box was premature!
>
>Good News: The AIX box was actually arriving when I arrived at his office to
> chat!
>
>Better News: There has been enough demand for kerberos support for AIX (from
>r
> outside of MIT) that the IS kerberos team is gearing up to handle
> it. They persuaded IBM to donate an RS/6000 so that they could
> have a current version of AIX to work with.
>
>In the course of our conversation, Tom agreed to be the point person for the
>Admin. Servers Services Team to contact for kerberized code for AIX. Of
>course we will need to keep in mind that Tom and the rest of the kerberos
>folks have very full plates at the moment. Our most recent target date of
>August 1 for having IPM ready for production may be a bit too early for them
>to have code ready for us. Tom is confident that they can kerberize AIX, but
>they need a few weeks to get the machine up and running and to poke around
>in the software. It would probably be a good idea for ASST to check in with
>him in July.
>
>By the way, I will also be looking to Tom for some guidance as I deal with IBM
>on the subject of kerberizing InfoPrint Manager.
>
>Here then are the next steps as I see them:
>
> - Tom will continue to work on kerberizing AIX.
> - ASST will check in with Tom Yu in July re kerberized AIX.
> - Rocklyn will consult with Tom for guidance re kerberizing IPM.
>
>
>Rocklyn
