[931] in Kerberos
On porting Kerberos...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Collier-Brown)
Thu May 10 13:09:38 1990
Date: 10 May 90 11:51:06 GMT
From: news-server.csri.toronto.edu!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!ists!yunexus!davecb@RUTGERS.EDU (David Collier-Brown)
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Peter_Van_Epp@CC.SFU.CA writes (in an article on Kerberos on a Gould PN9008
and IBM VM/SP):
| The main thing that I have
| found helpful is to have the code up on a SUN SPARC station (where it does
| compile!) to be able to see what the code should be doing. This is the only
| thing that got me through the first steps with Imake, since I didn't have
| some of the flags set right and it wouldn't even make the makefiles.
Hmmn.
I once had thoughts of taking an 8mm tape down to MIT and asking for
a snapshot of a running client machine, so that I'd have at least one
known, working configuration to help answer questions about how various
things reall worked, as opposed to were supposed to work.
I dropped it when I realized the sheer complexity of their supporting
environment: I wouldn't be able to test it against {\it anything} because
I'd have to simulate {\it everything}.
However, unpriveleged access to a running system via xterm (or telnet)
might still be a very usefull thing, since that machine really would be
part of athena and would server as a real-world example...
I wonder if that sounds as useful to the denizens of Athena?
--dave
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