[1037] in Moira
Re: reg_extra
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Dec 19 18:57:41 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Stephen Turner <sturner@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>, sao@MIT.EDU, thorne@MIT.EDU,
moiradev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 01 Aug 1996 09:46:29 EDT."
<9608011346.AA21195@snapdragon.MIT.EDU>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 18:57:35 EST
OK, I finally got around to looking into building reg_extra for the
sgi. After staring at the source I've found out several things:
reg_extra is a bastardized version of userreg (the program used to
register for an Athena account)
Teh only sources for reg_extra that I could find don't appear to have
be touched since mid-1992, although it looks like someone may have
thought about them this past April or May.
I had thought that there was a reg_extra binary for the SGI in the sis
locker. I appear to have been fooled by a script, I no longer believe
that reg_extra was ever built for the SGI.
Based on thins info I have a couple of questions:
Who originally created reg_extra?
Is there a more cannonical copy of the source than the one in
/afs/athena.mit.edu/astaff/project/sis_dev/src/krb/reg?
My general plan is to merge reg_extra back into the moira source tree
in the clients/userreg directory, and to have it share code with
userreg, where possible. However, there are some changes to reg_extra
that I don't understand the reasoning behind. If there is anyone who
worked on reg_extra who might remember why they did something (yeah, I
know there's only a 0.01% chance of this after this long) I'd
appreciate it if they identified themself to me. If anyone thinks
this approach is a bad idea, feel free to say so.
Jonathon
