[1646] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: bug in Kerberos 5 B5 kadmind5 on IRIX 5.3
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Wilson)
Sun Sep 24 20:22:06 1995
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 95 17:21:54 PDT
From: Chris Wilson <cwilson@CS.Stanford.EDU>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>, krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 24 Sep 1995 17:25:50 -0400
> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 95 22:48:11 PDT
> From: Chris Wilson <cwilson@CS.Stanford.EDU>
>
> Is there any chance I could get kadmind5 working well enough on IRIX
> that kpasswd will allow users to change their own passwords? What
> would that require? If it won't work now, how long would you estimate
> it would be before this is fixed?
>
> I can send you a snapshot which *might* work better. I can't really
> make any guarantees since IRIX is not currently one of our core
> development platforms. (That is to say, the Kerberos developers don't
> currently have easy access to an SGI, so we don't regularly do work on
> it.) We *do* have SGI's in the Athena environment, so this is something
> that we'll be worrying about; it's just that up until now, we haven't
> focused on making SGI's work.
>
> The database formats in this snapshot will *probably* not change between
> now and the 1.0 release. Most of the changes that we're working on now
> is to make the multiple encryption types feature work correctly; that
> shouldn't impact the database formats --- but no guarantees. The
> protocols are pretty much unchanged at this point, so you won't have to
> worry much on that score.
>
> I normally wouldn't make such an offer, since we can't offer much in the
> way of support with this interim release, and there are bound to be
> other problems with it. But you mentioned a tight time factor.... if
> you're willing to be a guinea pig, I'll send you the release.
>
> - Ted
Great, thanks. I'm willing to be a guinea pig. I fully understand
that you can't make promises about what might change before the
official release or whether there will be bugs. It's exactly what I
have to tell people about parts of our SUIF compiler system.
Just tell me what to do.
--Chris
