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Re: Interrealm support issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derrick J Brashear)
Fri Jan 3 18:30:14 1997
Date: Fri, 3 Jan 1997 18:25:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG>
Reply-To: Derrick J Brashear <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG>
To: zephyr@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <t533ewinyyw.fsf@rover.cygnus.com>
> Derrick J Brashear <shadow@DEMENTIA.ORG> writes:
>
> >> > This doesn't work for me today. In order to communicate with users at
> >> > athena, I need to be marc@CYGNUS.COM in athena's zephyr realm. How do
> >> > you propose making that work, including a credible migration path?
> >>
> >> Well, the credible migration path would presumably be both the
> >> Cygnus and MIT Zephyr admins installing "interrealm" servers. How
> >> do you propse that this will not work? ;-)
>
> First, I have no control over the MIT zephyr admins. Second, the
> migration should be invisible to users who do not need to use the new
> functionality. Many of my friends have aliases for "zwrite
> marc@cygnus.com", and this shoudl continue to work.
First is valid. Second is not. Aliases for zwrite marc@cygnus.com work as
always.
> The other problem is that if MIT has one zephyr realm to which all
> users from several kerberos realms subscribe, how does one distinguish
> between marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU and marc@LCS.MIT.EDU, which are not the
> same person?
By sending messages to marc@LCS.MIT.EDU instead of marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU?
I think you're missing something. You can right now subscribe to whatever you
want on the Andrew zephyr servers as marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU. I'd send you a Zephyr
as marc@ATHENA.MIT.EDU. The only thing stopping you from using the andrew
zephyr servers as you primary Zephyr "hub" (I'll use that in lieu of realm) is
that if you're using stock clients they don't understand how to deal with local
Kerberos realm is not local Zephyr realm, but that's not a bug in the CMU code.
-D
