[591] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
Re: Offer of Kerberos5'ized POP mail system
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Brezak)
Wed Jul 20 13:00:07 1994
To: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@cam.ov.com>
Cc: sommerfeld@apollo.hp.com, tytso@MIT.EDU, krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Jul 1994 11:52:43 EDT."
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Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 12:58:54 -0400
From: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 10:30:07 -0400
> From: John Brezak <brezak@apollo.hp.com>
>
> > We (i.e., OV Cambridge) also have a working version of the popper that
> > was shipped with krb5 beta 2; in fact, we submitted of our patches
> > back to krb5-bugs, so I don't know why they never made it into a later
> > release if they didn't.
> Which version of the popper did you use as the base ? The existing version
> 1.7?? is known to have bugs that can cause mail lossage. I used the 1.831
> version.
>
> We used the version that was in the krb5 beta 2 release, which was, I
> believe, version 1.7.
>
> I have made several non-Kerberos-related fixes to it related to mail
> lossage; I don't know if any bugs are of that sort are left.
> Obviously, though, having a Kerberos version of the popper based on
> the most recent non-Kerberos version would be good.
>
> I suspect that it would not be difficult to merge the differences
> between 1.7 and 1.831 into my version, or to merge the differences
> between stock 1.7 and my version in 1.831.
I took the 1.831 version and merged in the MMDF and Kerberos changes.
>
> > Our popper accepts both krb5 and krb4 requests.
> In the same popper or compilation options ?
>
> Either. I.e., you can compile it to support only krb4 or only krb5,
> or to support both in the same binary.
>
> Neat, eh? :-)
Yup. I did the the same thing. We use the same popper source to build
a popper (no kerb), k4popper and k5popper. But I haven't tried a combined
b4 and k5 popper although it should compile...
>
> Jonathan Kamens | OpenVision Technologies, Inc. | jik@cam.ov.com
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