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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!vic.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!weld.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!oleane!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!news-res.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!watnews.watson.ibm.com!bocanews.bocaraton.ibm.com!ausnews.austin.ibm.com! usenet From: Chris Cowan <cc@mantis.austin.ibm.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.soft-sys.dce Subject: Re: DCE secure core and DFS for BSDi? Date: 24 Jul 1996 21:20:15 -0500 Organization: ISSC DCE/DSM Architecture Lines: 37 Message-ID: <w5w687dysyo.fsf@mantis.austin.ibm.com> References: <4rumio$qhc@news.more.net> <JMR.96Jul10152743@guppy.sps.mot.com> <4sgul8$h01@arl-news-svc-2.compuserve.com> <glvITFG00iWZI8aH5x@andrew.cmu.edu> <DuqpA8.29n@wiz.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mantis.austin.ibm.com X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.2.25/XEmacs 19.14 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:4378 comp.soft-sys.dce:3538 marc@wiz.com (Marc Wiz) writes: > > In article <glvITFG00iWZI8aH5x@andrew.cmu.edu>, > Marvin A Sirbu <sirbu+@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote: > >Excerpts from netnews.comp.soft-sys.dce: 16-Jul-96 Re: DCE secure core > >and DFS.. by David E. Lindeman@davel. > >> I was the project leader for a project to do just this; the port > >> was never finished because the company decided to commit to NT. However, > >> RPC & pthreads are up and running (1.0.2a source on BSDi 1.1). CDS was > >> not completed and we never started security. If you were to buy a source > >> license for DCE 1.0x, we could probably arrange to get you the changes we > >> made. > > > >Why should one need a source license? The source code for the RPC has > >been made publicly available by the OSF. > > Because OSF did not make the source code for the CDS and security > components publicly available. > > Marc > > -- There is nothing that would prevent someone from writing a "work-alike" based on the OSF RFCs, is there? I have always harbored the hope that someone would do this. -- Chris Cowan ISSC (DCE/DSM Architecture) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: 512-823-0113 FAX: 512-823-0727