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Re: MinK question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Mon Mar 20 11:26:52 2000
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:26:43 -0500
To: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@mit.edu>, Kris Nyzio <knyzio@mit.edu>
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Cc: is-home@mit.edu, jmhunt@mit.edu, sw-release-team@mit.edu, bowser@mit.edu
I have made appropriate changes on the is/help/mink and is/help/kerberos pages.
One reason for mentioning Leash on the supported products page under
Kerberos for Windows would be that someone might go to the pages looking
for something about Leash, just as they might go looking for Kerberos
Manager or Kclient which I believe are listed under Kerberos for Macs.
Susan
At 11:04 AM -0500 3/20/2000, Jonathan McIndoe Hunt wrote:
>Hi Susan and Kris,
>
>When it first came out, mink stood for Minimum Kerbers Installer. Mink is
>the name for the installer. Please change the product name to "Kerberos
>for Windows." A new installer is not on the radar and changing the name of
>the installer at this point would cause too much confusion.
>
>Leash is one of four applications and a handful of dlls that make up
>Kerberos for Windows. I feel that Leash and the other three applications,
>Kview, Kdestroy, and Fleavius, should be included in the help documentation
>and not on the supported product sheets because it is too much information.
>
>I hope this helps clarify.
>
>Thanks,
>Jonathan
>
>At 09:38 AM 3/20/2000 -0500, Susan B. Jones wrote:
>>Hi Kris,
>>
>>Well, I think Jonathan is right that "Kerberos Utilities for Windows" is a
>>much better name than MinK, however, since the download is called
>>"mink-10-9-98" or whatever, I would prefer to make the change when we
>>change the name of what the download is.
>>
>>I'm not sure why he doesn't want to mention that Leash is installed.
>>Perhaps he can explain.
>>
>>Susan
>>
>>At 9:16 AM -0500 3/20/2000, Kris Nyzio wrote:
>> >Hi Susan,
>> >Jonathan Hunt has requested that MinK be changed to "Kerberos Utilities for
>> >Windows" on the new product support sheets. Before I make this change, I
>> >thought that I should consult you on it. He is also proposing that we
>> >remove the note stating that MinK also installs Leash. Sorry I can't
>> >forward you his actual comments, but I got all revisions in hard copy
>> >format.
>> >I'll wait to hear your thoughts on this before making the changes
>>requested.
>> >Thanks,
>> >Kris
