[4053] in Kerberos
Few basic questions II (non-buggy repost)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim)
Tue Oct 18 20:57:34 1994
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 19 Oct 1994 00:44:00 GMT
From: tfs@gravity.science.gmu.edu ( Tim)
(my last post got munged by an evil action of vi)
Hi, I need some help with some basic questions that have reared
their ugly heads through my efforts to get the mit distribution compiled.
I am attempting to get it built for IRIX 5.2, and then NeXTSTEP 3.2.
Currently I've started with the IRIX side of the fence because I
figured it would have a better chance of a clean build from a "stock"
distribution.
I've run into some problems with the signal handleing code in
~/src/appl/bsd/krlogin.c & expect with my good luck to run into more...
I'm wondering 2 things, both related to beginning to get this
stuff put in. First, is there a distribution of the code that's been
maintained in a more up to date fashion than the MIT archive? First
quarter of 94 was a while ago, and is pre-IRIX 5.2 it seems. So I'm
wondering if there's either A. a more current achive, or B. wether
some brave soul out there has allready done the work on IRIX I'm
attempting to do.
The other thing I'm wondering is in relation to NeXTSTEP,
& is if anyone has built it for versions above 3.0 with a degree of
sucess. I ask this becasue after looking at the Code Tree I can
immidiatly identify the telnet source, and ~know~ it will not work
as is. I've ported it allready for a diffrent application, so I
know it's crufty old code. I'm concerned the rest of the distribution
will fall into that catagory as well. Hell, even a better/newer port
of the telnet source would be welcome as hell.
In any event, I've a real need to install this stuff, so
without viable alternative I'm going to be forced to fix the source
myself. I'd like to avoid duplication of effort, or making mistakes
& headaches other people have allready had if it's _AT_ALL_ possible.
Since I'm approaching this with only basic knowledge of how
kerberos works & some of the installation and administraton issues,
the nitty gritty source problems & basic knowledge of where and what
the "state of the art" currently is are things I do not know and need
some guidence on.
I should qualify that by saying that I am aware there are some
Commercial implementations around, but not what they are etc. And that
since I'm doing this in an academic setting, funding isn't there for
those (yet, or ever). Before that can happen, I'd have to show serious
results etc. So I'm stuck with non-commercial solutions.
On the other hand, I'm desperatly sick of dealing with the repeated
hassles that vanellia NIS brings, & all the rest of the hassles that go
with breakins from relativly ignorant morons & the like. I don't pretend
to even think this would stop a knowledgeable & sufficently dedicated
intruder, but that flavor isn't my problem. I'm damn sick of dealing
with bottom feeders & problems from idiots who don't understand NIS, but
understand "ypcat". While dealing with the problems isn't a large
effort, the periodic nature & time required to do so are real motivation
to do something more along the lines of a permanet solution.
If anyone can offer me some guidence, I'd appreciate it, & would
ask that you email me as well as post here. I'm happy to summarize if
the respose warrants it. At a minimum, I want to make sure any work *I*
do to port code doesn't languish, but becomes avalible. I do expect to
have significant work on the NeXT end of this equasion.
Thanks,
Tim Scanlon
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tfs@vampire.science.gmu.edu Tim Scanlon
George mason University Local Unix Guru
tfs@uunet.uu.net Network Engineer
UUNET Technologies Inc.
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