[32104] in Kerberos
Re: remctld on windows
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Edgecombe)
Thu Feb 25 21:50:13 2010
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:50:18 -0500
From: Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com>
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To: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
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Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com> writes:
>
>
>> I noticed that remctld is not supported on windows. Is it possible to
>> run on windows XP? It would be ideal for some in-house programs that are
>> needed. what issues are involved when running remctld on windows?
>>
>
> remctld relies heavily on UNIX fork and select semantics and will not run
> on native Windows of any variety. I'm not sure it would even work on
> Cygwin. However, the server component of the Java implementation should
> work on Windows provided that the same security classes are available.
>
> The first step to getting the server to work natively on Windows would be
> to move the network protocol components of the server into a library.
> This is on my to-do list, but I have no ETA (not soon).
>
>
Dang. Thanks.
Jason
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