[583] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: Kerberos 5 Beta4.1 port diffs for HP-UX 9.03
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Fri Jul 15 14:46:41 1994
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 94 14:43:49 EDT
From: tytso@MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
To: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>
Cc: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU, sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com
In-Reply-To: John Brezak's message of Fri, 15 Jul 1994 14:27:13 -0400,
<9407151828.AA02023@relay.hp.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 1994 14:27:13 -0400
From: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>
Good. I hope this will be optional for those systems that already have
this - NetBSD has this as part of libc.
Yes, I'll make it possible to make it optional, but it'll probably
require some manual editing of the Makefiles. Each "option" makes the
configuration process that much more complicated, and after all, the db
library isn't all that big. I'm trying to shoot for simplicity here....
I hope building the libraries is improved. I'd really like to have
a shared libkrb5... Doing this with the current scheme is difficult
at best. I want the libkrb5.a too.
I'd like to have shared libkrb5, too. It probably won't happen for a
while, though, unless someone contributes the code. My personal primary
development environment will be switching to a Solaris machine soon
(expressions of sympathy are appreciated, but I asked for it --- pain
builds character :-), so I the first platform that I'll try to have
shared libraries working on will be Sun's.
> I do really appreciate the work that you've put into improving Beta 4.1
> and making it work under HP-UX. I hope you will try Beta 4.2 when it
> comes out, and give us similar feedback. Speaking of which, if you
> could test Beta 4.2 (which will have the new encoders) and make sure
> that it interoperates with the ASN.1 encoders/decoders in the DCE
> Kerberos, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks again!!
Send it to me - I'll be glad to. It might even be good to let us have it
before general availability do that this can be checked.
Once we get the latest round of changes stablized, which will probably
be in a week or so, I'll be making another patch release. In general,
we'll be shooting for issueing patch releases every 2-4 weeks. If you
can grab the patch release, and try it out, that would be great. I
expect that the new encoders will be going through a general shakedown
period consistenting of at least one or two patch releases before they
are completely stable. I certainly wouldn't advise that any vendor use
Beta 4.2 for a product!
- Ted
