[1732] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: MIT's Kerberos
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Thu Nov 23 02:32:22 1995
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 1995 02:32:06 -0500
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: vanni@allegro.mit.edu
Cc: kelley@MIT.EDU, rar@MIT.EDU, krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Giovanni Aliberti's message of Tue, 21 Nov 95 13:00:31 EST,
<9511211800.AA02370@allegro.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 95 13:00:31 EST
From: vanni@allegro.mit.edu (Giovanni Aliberti)
Well, last night I pulled the release again and much to
my surprise things have changed ** for the better **.
They finally decided to use the GNU autoconf utility, and to have all
the needed stuff under a single tree. In other words I was able to
pull, configure and compile things with very little effort.
I'm glad you like it! However, the Kerberos V5 distribution has been
using autoconf for the last 18 months ago. If you were flaming about
"how bad the MIT/Kerberos release was not too long ago", you were
probably basing your comments on either Kerberos V4 or an out-of-date
version of Kerberos V5.
I am not sure, what organizational/phylosophical/... changes have
taken place inside the 'kerberos team' ...
My hat is off to whoever originated those changes. They are defintely
for the better !!
The main change was that starting about 18 months ago, MIT finally
started devoting some real resources towards the "kerberos team".
Previous to that, it was mostly me, plus a couple of UROP students; and
it was me only when I wasn't responding to network emergencies (I was on
the network operations staff, and I carried a pager). Now that we are
planning to use Kerberos V5 for our administrative computing
infrastructure, we've been able to put enough resources behind the
Kerberos V5 development effort so that we've been able to make some
significant improvements.
There are still definitely bugs in the release which you're using, which
have been fixed in our development tree, and there are still known
problems in our current development sources. But we're working hard on
trying to get them fixed.
- Ted
