Hey guys, I've been gone the last few days so I'm sure I'm going to rehash lots of comments/questions. If nothing else, I hope it can serve as a reminder to anyone scanning the archives that well-informed, detailed questions are a Good Thing.
Bob, I'm not attacking you but I'd like to repeat a few questions, ask one or two of my own and sprinkle in a couple of comments. 2009/2/26 Bob Radvanovsky <[email protected]>: > (2) I have Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 loaded on it WITH EVERYTHING LOADED. > I chose the "Use Everything" option. > (3) I have downloaded OpenSSL 0.9.8. configured, compiled and installed. > (4) I have downloaded Apache 2.0.63, configured, compiled and installed. Given (2), why (3) and (4)? When I was doing a feasibility test of cosign for our University I used a combination of FreeBSD servers/clients and RHEL 5 servers/clients. Every package except cosign was handled inside the distribution's package manager (or in Ports on FreeBSD) and everything built/installed fine. > (6) I have downloaded CoSign 2.1.0 from the web site, configured, compiled > and have attemped to install it. > > Nuttin'. By "nuttin'", you mean...? At what point are you reaching failure? > There are MULTIPLE instructions for installing this software. There are > multiple methods for utilizing whatever path you choose. > > ...and yet, no tickie, and no washie. Which instructions did you follow? Did you follow README/README.weblogin, wiki instructions, what? Not to say that the README has *all* of the necessary information for *all* platforms, I have my own personal HOWTO that I keep handy that is FreeBSD specific and we have another that is RHEL specific, but they had enough information that I was able to get the software built and installed. At what point did/do things break? > For whatever reason, I cannot get this software to compile and install > correctly. If I understand this correctly, this is to be the "front door" > for a portal server that, based on the user's ID and password, and based upon > their rights granted, would grant them permissions of various levels of > applications based from their login ID and password authentication. Right? This is a "front door", yes. To use that analogy it is the component that says, "username and password?" and then "access granted to resources" or "access denied". All it does is authenticates. Since it sounds like your portal will handle authorisation, that's not an issue. To get back to the point, though - is it that you can't get it to install or can't get it to compile? What are the compile errors? > If I say much more, I'll probably piss off the community some more than I > already have. If anything I'd say you haven't said nearly enough. Post the build errors, let the community know what your actual problems are rather than just the conclusions you've reached. Usually it's something minor that is overlooked. For example, I was trying to build reconnoiter a few weeks ago on a FreeBSD machine. The ports system places pretty much anything installed in /usr/local (what I consider to be the appropriate place for installed software that doesn't come in the base distribution). I was getting a build error about the uuid-generator library not being found and couldn't for the life of me figure out why. A quick post to the reconnoiter-users list and the project lead came back with, "are you including the appropriate library location in your LD flags?". Whoops, no, I'm not. Something minor, a single flag passed to ./configure, and my headaches were resolved. I've seen the same thing happen on this list several times but that occurrence was fresh on my mind. > Sorry...this product does NOT work. I'm sure that multiple universities and businesses that use this product on a daily basis, on every GNU/Linux distribution from RedHat to Gentoo and several of the BSDs, would quite loudly argue that it does, indeed, work. kmw -- Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even if chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Cosign-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cosign-discuss
