[OpenAFS-devel] RE: OpenAFS CVS Commit: openafs/src/viced byzacheiss

[Derek Atkins]

There was some discussion about this recently on, IIRC, openafs-info.

-derek

"Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

> Like I said... I don't disagree with the change. I just think changing
> behavior in this way should probably be a bit more open, cause it will
> have an impact if you were used to it behaving that way.
> 
> I don't know if it would be enough of an impact to warrant a command
> line control option or not. I doubt it. 
> 
> Definately should be clearly spelled out in NEWS/release notes for the
> next release it is in.
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Russ Allbery [mailto:rra@stanford.edu] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 12:21 PM
> > To: openafs-devel@openafs.org
> > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS-devel] RE: OpenAFS CVS Commit: 
> > openafs/src/viced byzacheiss
> > 
> > 
> > Neulinger, Nathan <nneul@umr.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > Not that I disagree with this change or anything, but it 
> > sounds like a
> > > rather significant change in behavior to be applying without much
> > > discussion. 
> > 
> > This is in part my fault; I just brought it up in the AFS Workshop at
> > Usenix.  Apparently this is something that Transarc changed a 
> > while back
> > and that MIT then patched back out again (folks at MIT always 
> > get confused
> > when I mention this).
> > 
> > If anyone is interested in the extended discussion of why I think this
> > change is a major security improvement, let me know; I can go 
> > on about it
> > at some length.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             
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> > 
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