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Re: MinK question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Susan B. Jones)
Mon Mar 20 11:56:23 2000
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Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:56:14 -0500
To: "Mark A. Van Dyke" <mvan@mit.edu>, Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@mit.edu>
From: "Susan B. Jones" <sbjones@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Kris Nyzio <knyzio@mit.edu>, is-home@mit.edu, sw-release-team@mit.edu,
bowser@mit.edu
Well the good news is if you look at the mink page, the title is changed,
but they still have to install Mink (to get Kerberos for Windows).
S.
At 11:47 AM -0500 3/20/2000, Mark A. Van Dyke wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I agree that "Kerberos for Windows" is a more consistent name.
>However we've spent the last few years training the Windows users of
>the MIT community that they need to install MinK to run various
>applications. Changing the name without even a word to the various
>help desks is likely to cause some initial confusion. Can we at least
>include a footnote to say something like "Formally known as MinK"?
>
>Mark
>
>On Mon, 20 Mar 2000 11:04:52 EST you 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 fo
> *r
>> > >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
>>requeste
> *d.
>> > >Thanks,
>> > >Kris
>>
