[1073] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: [Doug Engert ] Krlogind and ss-962301
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Hartman)
Mon Apr 15 18:52:57 1996
To: Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com>, Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>,
krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Sam Hartman <hartmans@MIT.EDU>
Date: 15 Apr 1996 18:52:44 -0400
In-Reply-To: Marc Horowitz's message of Mon, 15 Apr 1996 18:19:45 EDT
>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Horowitz <marc@MIT.EDU> writes:
Marc> In message <199604152203.SAA00603@badger.lehman.com>,
Marc> "Richard Basch" <basch@lehman.com> writes:
>>> The problem is I don't know how well HP-UX 10.0 works. (While
>>> we do have some such machines, I don't readily have access to
>>> them to test it out to comment further.)
Marc> I had some serious problems when I tried to get streams
Marc> working on hpux 10.x, which is why I reverted to
Marc> berkeley-style stuff. Doug/Sam seems to have gotten streams
Marc> to work, but I'm still a little uncomfortable.
It is not clear to me that klogind will work once I get your
patches without reverting to Berkeley mode. If it doesn't work, I'll
revert.
Also, if Cygnus or someone says the feel strongly that in this
instance, I'm wrong, I'll use berkeley mode on the HP. I don't feel
that strongly about the issue. I don't want to have to do this on
every platform, or as a general rule.
Marc> I'm probably
Marc> also biased from my OV days, when many of our customers
Marc> required the absolute minimum changes from the
Marc> vendor-provided programs. It would be unfortunate for
Marc> Cygnus or OV or any other kerberos vendor to have to change
Marc> the MIT release because we were trying to be intellectual
Marc> purists. This is nice for an educational environment, but
Marc> is inadequate for the real world. If we want to make
Marc> kerberos widely-accepted, it needs to be as painless as
Marc> possible, and this means minimizing unnecessary changes.
I would argue that consistency withing Kerberos is more important than emulating vendor behavior. However, I'm not in the market of selling Kerberos.
Marc> Marc
