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Re: Suggestion from Matt Wall of Mech Eng

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Fri Sep 19 12:37:10 1997

Date: Fri, 19 Sep 1997 12:37:05 -0400
From: danw@MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
To: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>, mbwall@MIT.EDU
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, cwis-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1099] in Release_7.7_team"

> >It would be _really_ helpful if there were a web interface to
> >listmaint (and mailmaint, for that matter).  This should be an
> >easy program to write

The problem is with authentication: there's no way to pass a kerberos
ticket over a web interface. We _could_ hack up something using
certificates, but it would be just as annoying and difficult to use as
WebSIS, and it would take a _lot_ of development effort.

-- Dan

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