jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) (05/09/91)
Archive-name: internet/notifier/zephyr/1991-04-29 Archive-directory: aeneas.mit.edu:/pub/zephyr/ [18.71.0.38] Original-posting-by: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) Original-subject: Re: BSD tty security, part 3: How to Fix It Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) In article <kre.672866069@mundamutti.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, kre@cs.mu.oz.au (Robert Elz) writes: |> [description of a daemon-based message service] |> |> This stuff is not available (yet) so don't bother asking - the guy |> who is actually writing the code has other things to do as well. |> (My role is largely to tell him just why its not quite right yet...) Your code may not be available yet, but Project Athena's Zephyr is. \begin{plug} It is distributed (it works for us in an environment with over 1000 workstations), it supports Kerberos authentication (if you want it), it supports multiple interfaces both for message senders and message recipients, and all functionality is encapsulated in a library, so people can write their own interfaces if they want (I know someone who has implemented much of the Zephyr library in perl :-). For more information, you can anonymous ftp to athena-dist.mit.edu [18.71.0.38] and look in /pub/usenix/zephyr.PS for a (PostScript) paper about Zephyr that was presented at Usenix, or look in /pub/zephyr for the source code et al. If you don't have anonymous ftp access, you can send mail to "archive-server@athena-dist.mit.edu" with "help" in the body to find out how to get the stuff via E-mail. \end{plug} If you have questions about Zephyr, I'd be glad to answer them, but please read the Usenix paper before asking them in E-mail (unless you can't read PostScript; I don't know where the text version of the paper is, or I'd say). -- Jonathan Kamens USnail: MIT Project Athena 11 Ashford Terrace jik@Athena.MIT.EDU Allston, MA 02134 Office: 617-253-8085 Home: 617-782-0710 -- comp.archives file verification aeneas.mit.edu total 205 drwxrwxr-x 2 5509 512 Apr 10 12:34 doc drwxrwxr-x 2 5509 512 Dec 26 1989 dist -rw-r--r-- 1 5509 2051 Dec 26 1989 README drwxr-xr-x 2 5509 1024 Dec 26 1989 src.split -r--r--r-- 3 5509 38208 Dec 18 1989 patch3 -r--r--r-- 3 5509 75725 Oct 27 1989 patch2 -rw-r--r-- 2 5509 24214 Oct 27 1989 makedepend.tar.Z -r--r--r-- 3 5509 57884 Oct 17 1989 patch1 -r--r--r-- 2 5509 5844 Oct 17 1989 src.zwgc.zwgc.el found zephyr ok aeneas.mit.edu:/pub/zephyr/