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Re: KSIGN installer problem

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theresa M Regan)
Fri Aug 29 05:19:59 1997

Date:         Fri, 29 Aug 97 05:17:16 EDT
From: Theresa M Regan <TREGAN@mitvma.mit.edu>
To: Rob Smyser <smyser@MIT.EDU>, Gerald I Isaacson <gii@MIT.EDU>,
        Jim Repa <REPA@mitvma.mit.edu>
Cc: installers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To:  Message of Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:14:34 -0400 from <smyser@MIT.EDU>

Hi Folks,

The SAPgui relies on Kerberos5.  It would be appreciated if it was tested,
as well.  If people are tight for time and just wish to point me in the
right direction, I can test next week.

Thanks,
Theresa

On Thu, 28 Aug 1997 14:14:34 -0400 you said:
>Testing on a Win95 machine with no previous traces of ksign showed that the
>ksign8c installer works (win95 must do a toupper() on the environment
>variables for DOS compatibility).  The same installer still works on NT,
>doing the right things with the krb5.ini file.
>
>I think we're set.
>
>Rob
>
>At 1:36 PM -0400 8/28/97, Gerald I Isaacson wrote:
>>I found the problem with the krb5.ini file.  It turns out that the
>>environment variables are case sensitive in NT and I was using WINDIR
>>as the variable rather than windir.  I don't have access to a Win95 system so
>>it should be tested against a Win and win95 system to see if the lower case
>>variable works in those systems.  If it doesn't I can put a check in for NT
>>and use separate Get variables depending on the system.
>>
>>The lastest version is ksign8c in installers/win3/ksign/giitest
>>
>>Sorry  about that
>>
>>Jerry
>
>
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>	Rob Smyser
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>	smyser@mit.edu
>
>

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