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Re: InfoPrint Manager, Kerberos, and MIT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David F Lambert)
Fri Jun 23 07:48:30 2000
Message-Id: <200006231148.HAA19424@fort-point-station.mit.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 00 07:45:40 EDT
From: David F Lambert <LAMBERT@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <RCLARKE@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>,
Enterprise Print Delivery Team <PRINTDEL@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 22 Jun 00 17:35:14 EDT
On Thu, 22 Jun 00 17:35:14 EDT you said:
>Hi Team,
>
>Jeff Banta joined me today for a conference call with Carl Kugler and Ron
>Bailey of IBM. We discussed the issues involved in kerberizing InfoPrint
>Manager (IPM) for use at MIT. In the course of our conversation, the IBM
>folks suggested that we consider using IPM's DCE support to handle our
>authentication needs. This was consistent with an earlier suggestion by
>our own Tom Yu from MIT's kerberos squad and I believe it is the sensible
>course to pursue. Carl pointed out that IPM would expect us to provide a
>DCE namespace for authorizations and I suggested that we might be able to
>set one up and populate it from the Roles Database. We agreed to take the
>following next steps:
>
>1. Carl Kugler will point me to IBM DCE documentation.
>2. I will pursue DCE to determine if our kerberos infrastructure can
> interoperate with it.
>3. I will communicate with them next week for follow up.
>
>Later today, I was over in N42 and I mentioned this turn of events to Susan
>Minai-Azary. She thought that this sounded like a reasonable way to proceed,
>but suggested that I check in with I/T Integration once I've finished my
>DCE research. She also added that it might be preferable to populate the
>DCE namespace from the Data Warehouse rather than from Roles.
>
>I expect to have more information next week.
>
>Rocklyn
Good progress, Rocklyn. I was going to update Susan today on your
IPM kerberos efforts to insure she knew we were taking this task
seriously & making headway. I'm glad you had an opportunity to speak
with her. Thanks much!
-Dave
