[229] in athena10
Re: Review of changes to Evolution
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Fri May 30 23:20:06 2008
Cc: Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 23:18:06 -0400
Agreed, however it does present an opportunity to bring about two
changes which are long overdue and would improve MIT infrastructure in
general. Being mindful of its role in the larger project, and that
hours could be better spent elsewhere, is why I volunteered to be the
one to pursue this issue, if that seems the best course of action.
-Jon
On May 30, 2008, at 9:20 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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.
>
