[1432] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Beta 7 release not happening today
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Y. Ts'o)
Fri Jul 26 16:14:31 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 16:14:18 -0400
From: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: krbcore@MIT.EDU
As most of you have guessed, the Beta 7 release isn't going to be
happening today. There was just too many rough edges to deal with....
The game plan at this point is for us to spend the next week or two
trying to polish Beta 7. I will be on vacation next week; when I get
back, we'll re-evaluate where we are, and hopefully be in a position to
get a strong, quality release out the second or third week of August.
Here's a partial list of things which I know still need to be fixed:
* Documentation needs to be updated.
* The dejagnu test suite needs to be updated to use kdb5_util.
* The dejagnu test suite should actually try testing the
kadmin/kadmind --- at least in some superficial manner.
* kdb5_util has a lousy user interface; some commands use the
-d on the command line. Other commands require that
ignore the -d on the command line, and use the -d on the
ss subcommand line.
* kdb5_util, when importing a V4 database, needs to create all
of the magic kadmin principals. It's not clear to me
whether it should create the policy database, too --- if
not, there must be an easy way for someone who is
upgrading from Kerberos V4 to get the policy database
created. (Do we tell them to do a create, manually
delete principal.db, and then do a load_v4_db? Ugly!)
* kadmind needs to print english messages when there's missing
items in the kdc.conf file. Most system administrators
aren't mind readers, and won't know that "(2000)" means
that they need to add a acl_file line to the kdc.conf.
(Why isn't there a sensible default for this, anyway?)
* kadmin/kadmind should be run under purify, if this hasn't been
done already
There may be more things that needs fixing, but this is a good start.
If anyone finds other things that they think need fixing, pleae send it
to krbcore, so that we can all be on the same page of which things
really need fixing.
See you all in week!
- Ted
