[6036] in Kerberos
WHEN?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Engert)
Sun Oct 22 21:04:30 1995
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 95 16:49:41 CDT
From: "Doug Engert" <DEEngert@anl.gov>
To: <KERBEROS@MIT.EDU>
Cc: <HARTMANS@MIT.EDU>, <AUTHTF@ES.NET>
Sam,
You said in your note from Sat 21: "You should try Kerberos again
after our next release, and you will almost certainly have much
better luck." There was a reference last month to trying to get
the next release out with in the month. It should have been out
by October 1.
Can you give us any better estimates of when we might see the
next release?
As you must already know, I have been making available a context
diff file of all of our mods to Kerberos 5 beta 5 at
"ftp://achilles.ctd.anl.gov/kerberos.v5.k55.cdiff.95xxxx" This
includes many of the reported bugs. This was originally done to
assist others in ESnet to implement Kerberos.
There are many other people out there who have down loaded
Kerberos 5 beta 5, and they keep running into the same bugs over
and over. I have seen this many times. The last was a report from
Dave Clarke on October 18 about a problem with the mk_faddr.c
code. Paul Pomes reported this same problem on May 11.
I have received many comments on how useful my patch file has
been to many people out there who have not seen every krb5-bug
report.
Dave Clark asked if these was any information on bugs. I did see
a reference to using Discus. Why not tell everyone about the Web
access to the krb5-bugs list?
Either a more timely release schedule, or easier access to the
bugs reports would help many of those who are new to Kerberos 5
get up to speed.
Douglas E. Engert
Systems Programming
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, Illinois 60439
(708) 252-5444
Internet: DEEngert@anl.gov
