[1135] in NetBSD-Development
Re: /afs/sipb/project/sipb-athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Nov 19 17:30:20 1995
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 17:30:06 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
Cc: cfields@glacier.MIT.EDU, brlewis@glacier.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[1133] in NetBSD-Development"
> 2) Someone should create a mailing list for discussion of changes to
> the sipb-athena tree.
I stole sipb-spare-03 and created a list sipb-athena (active as of
tomorrow, of course). For now, it's owned by sipb-acl and contains
netbsd-dev and linux-dev. I don't have any strong preferences about
how such a list is used, so if people want to do something different,
that's fine.
In other news, I've tested and debugged the new libAL code, and I
believe it to be functional. (It's in production on ringworld, and
I've tested telnetd under Linux.) I've also modified cleanup and dm
to work with libAL (since cleanup isn't doing standard login
operations, it just uses the libAL routines to begin and end file
updates, but that still saves a fair amount of complexity). cleanup
has been tested; dm hasn't, but all it has to do is remove a passwd
entry, so it should be fine.
On a somewhat more relaxed time schedule, I plan to integrate Craig's
utmp libAL support into the sipb-athena libAL tree, and modify login
and xlogin to use it. My theory is that we can individually migrate
pieces of functionality from login/login.c and xdm/xlogin/verify.c
into libAL, and then eventually move towards a session interface.
