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- From: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
- Subject: Prelease testers for a final distribution of Kerberos V4
- Message-ID: <9211112301.AA19917@tsx-11.MIT.EDU>
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:01:32 GMT
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- I am preparing a "final" Kerberos V4 release by MIT. The primary new
- features include: enhancements to the kadmin server to enforce password
- quality, a kadmind support and a new kamdind client to do remote srvtab
- generation, and a lot of porting changes to make Kerberos V4 compile on
- platforms such as the Sun, RS/6000, sgi, irix, and the HP. Since I am
- not in a position to test all of the porting changes, I am looking for a
- few prerelease testers to try it out and let me know of any problems.
-
- If you are interested, please send mail to me. The pre-release will go
- out on Friday, and I'd like the pre-release testers to try it and get
- back to me within a week. If you don't have time to look at it right
- away, then just wait, since the final version will be coming out a week
- from now anyway (i.e., the week after the IETF meeting). I am
- especially interested in people who have access to the above platforms
- and who are willing to try compiling Kerberos V4 on them.
-
- This release will represent the final Kerberos V4 release that we expect
- to do at MIT. Its main motiviation is the fact that several parties
- have obtained copies of our internal source tree, which has several new
- features and supports additional platforms that are not in the publicly
- released V4 distribution. Thus, we are making a final release so that
- everybody can have equal access to our code.
-
- We are not planning on doing any further Kerberos V4 work at this time;
- our future development efforts will be based off of Kerberos V5, not V4.
-
- - Ted
-