[475] in Kerberos
more comments on kerberos installation
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (jbloom@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Sat Jul 30 11:05:10 1988
From: jbloom@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
It would be nice if there was some easy way to check the output from the
des test program verify. I find having to read a printed copy and the
program output more difficult than is needed. A couple ideas for making
this less error prone would be to include a copy of the correct output
so that diff might be run or to have verify have the results hardcoded
inside and test for correctness itself using bcmp. The second is more
work, but even easier for someone installing kerberos.
The operation guide is fairly complete about all of the steps needed to
install kerberos and run a first test of the system. One step was missed
here; There was no mention that an entry for kerberos was needed in
/etc/services.
Another problem in the operations guide with the sample entry in inetd.conf
for the sample (test) server. What is the field entry "switched"? This is
not most machines to which I have access. In fact, the only machines I can
find it on are the Athena machines. It is NOT described in the online
manual pages there either. This field should probably be dropped be from
the operations guide sample.
I'm not sure if I really like the idea of the installation being performed
to /usr/athena. I don't feel that everyone outside of Athena should have
to add something else to their path to access kerberos. Maybe the libraries
should go in /usr/local/lib which is searched by most loaders when looking
for libraries referenced as -llibname.
Jim Bloom
