[607] in Release_7.7_team
CNS for Irix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jun 26 01:39:32 1996
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 1996 01:39:27 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
So, the situation is that we have all of these bugs in the Kerberos
remote access servers (rlogind and company) for Irix. Cygnus has a
Kerberos 4 product called CNS available, which they've ported to a
bunch of platforms including Irix, Linux, and NetBSD.
Craig thought it would be a good idea to move to CNS for Irix this
release, so I've acquired a snapshot of the CNS source tree and
installed it in /source/third/supported/cns. There shouldn't be any
noticeable differences to users (apart from rlogind working). There
are a few API differences; I think I can kludge CNS to handle some of
them and repair a bit of unethical source to get around the rest. The
only irritating problem I'm currently working on is that it likes to
install 23 files with names like c-vax.h in /usr/athena/include, and
select which one to include via /usr/include/include/conf.h.
If I run across any API differences rebuilding the source that I think
would be a problem for people building courseware or other software,
I'll document it and we can decide whether this is a good idea or not.
Current schedule theory is that I will have this ready, along with a
set of packs, by beta test (July 1).
None of this affects Solaris, although we may want to move to CNS for
all platforms in a future release.
