[228] in athena10
Re: Review of changes to Evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri May 30 21:20:57 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 21:20:12 -0400
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I would like to remind people that this is one of many tasks to be
completed, not a focal point of the project.
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 20:19 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> >>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> >> 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.
>
> Jonathan> My understanding is that Theresa is very interested in
> Jonathan> transitioning everyone to username.mail.mit.edu, and
> Jonathan> there has been an active push to do this, particularly
> Jonathan> with documentation and Helpdesk communication. I feel
> Jonathan> fairly confident that if we approach Theresa and tell
> Jonathan> her that acceptance of username.mail.mit.edu is blocking
> Jonathan> on a small tweak on the PO servers, she will be able to
> Jonathan> offer some insight into a possible solution. I think we
> Jonathan> should pursue this.
>
> I think Greg should also involve Wilson in this.
