Amen, brother. In the late '90s, we (USAir before it became USAirways) decided to donate the device throttling code I had written. Donating it took longer than writing and testing it. However, they do have a mechanism for accepting code. I suspect that most of the time taken was by the respective legal departments. It certainly did not take me long to sign the Certificate of Authenticity,
Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Boyes > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 8:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: I hate to ask -- VM passwords authenticated against AD? > > I have most of the piece parts done (IUCV driver, PAM driver, > Kerberos and LDAP interfaces, Linux guest to do the heavy > lifting) to enable VM to use any authentication sources > supported by PAM, including AD. The remaining part is the > necessary CP modules to normalize all the entry points to CP > into a documented interface that doesn't require rebuilding > CP, then convincing IBM to either ship VM with the RACF > interface modules prebuilt, plus a dummy "RACF lite" that > implements the defaut "defer" behavior, or agree on what the > external interface should be in terms of service access > points and ship that. I'd actually donate the service code if > IBM would accept it. > > As you might imagine, the last part is the hardest. If > someone wants this badly enough to pay for it, then I can > probably have a beta-ready version available in a month or so. > > -- db >
