[225] in athena10
Re: Review of changes to Evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri May 30 15:54:31 2008
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: ghudson@mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 15:54:22 -0400
> Also, our Hesiod patch is a bit frightening. It is
> unfortunate that username.mail.mit.edu does not work with Kerberos
> authentication, especially since it would require only a small tweak
> to fix that, but we can't rely on NIST making changes to the PO
> servers before this fall.
My understanding is that Theresa is very interested in transitioning
everyone to username.mail.mit.edu, and there has been an active push
to do this, particularly with documentation and Helpdesk
communication. I feel fairly confident that if we approach Theresa
and tell her that acceptance of username.mail.mit.edu is blocking on a
small tweak on the PO servers, she will be able to offer some insight
into a possible solution. I think we should pursue this.
> (8) is a frustrating point. It requires a package modification to
> address and it would be unnecessary if NIST would enable krb5
> authentication on the PO servers, which in my opinion is long overdue.
Again, I think this is something we should approach Theresa about.
The effort to punt krb4 seems to have been given new life with the
release of Leopard, and if a small change would allow us to punt yet
another use of krb4, I think we should pursue it.
I would volunteer to do this outreach if no one else is interested,
but I won't unless someone explicitly tells me they think I should.
-Jon
