[1908] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: Krb5 beta5 defect report
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Mullan)
Fri May 3 15:52:41 1996
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Sean Mullan <mullan_s@apollo.hp.com>, krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU,
champine@apollo.hp.com
In-Reply-To: <9605022157.AA27052@dcl.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 15:51:47 -0400
From: Sean Mullan <mullan_s@apollo.hp.com>
Hi Ted,
>Sean,
> I thought you had a copy of our pre-beta 6 development snapshot,
>right? (I gave one to someone at HP, and I thought you had access to
>it, anyway.) Preauthentication handling has significantly changed
>between beta 5 and what we have now.
Yes, we do have pre-beta 6 and I usually do check those sources before
sending in bug reports.
However, I think this particular problem also exists in pre-beta 6.
(I'm not sure if you are implying that this defect is fixed by the
new preauth handling but from a cursory look at the sources, I still
think it is a problem, but I could be wrong).
> Some engineers at HP have been looking at the pre-release to
>decide what (if anything) would be merged into DCE. Unfortuately, I
>think the decision that was made was that DCE had drifted too far from
>the current MIT source tree to make it easy to adopt our framework. I
>do hope this is a decision that can be re-examined later on when
>deadlines aren't quite so tight. I believe our new framework for
>handling preauthentication is far superior.
>
Yes I am aware of the conversation between you and Greg Carpenter and
I agree that the preauth handling has improved significantly.
Right now, I am only concentrating on bringing in bug fixes or merges
which affect interoperability or compatibility. We really do want to
be able to merge to the latest beta, it's just a matter of time and
resources, as you pointed out.
--Sean
