Re: Debian openssh option review: considering splitting out GSS-API key exchange

2024-04-01 Thread Howard Chu
auth, account and session modules all run in the same address > space. These would break until re-architected to pass things explicitly, > e.g. via environment variables, temp files, etc. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun h

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-11 Thread Howard Chu
Scott Kitterman wrote: On Saturday, July 06, 2013 01:52:59 PM Howard Chu wrote: Florian Weimer wrote: * Howard Chu: LMDB doesn't need dirty tricks to look good. (And at only 6KLOCs of source, there's nowhere to hide any tricks anyway.) Okay, I found a snag: the 511 bytes limit on the key

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Howard Chu
to publish the source code, by virtue of the fact that giving the modified code to Company A is distributing it. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Howard Chu
Paul Tagliamonte wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:19:47PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: Right, I want to understand AGPL's motivations is all. I used to put similar terms on my code, back before the GPL existed. Essentially: If you modify this code, you must send your modifications back to me

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Howard Chu
Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:53:01PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: Sure, but that doesn't make it DFSG free (hint: it's likely not)[1][2] [1]: The Dissident test [2]: The Desert Island test Sure, but #2 is stupid. We didn't say must send changes back immediately. Nor would

Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users

2013-07-11 Thread Howard Chu
government, then complying with a license that can only be enforced by a government agency is probably the least of your worries. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-06 Thread Howard Chu
Florian Weimer wrote: * Howard Chu: LMDB doesn't need dirty tricks to look good. (And at only 6KLOCs of source, there's nowhere to hide any tricks anyway.) Okay, I found a snag: the 511 bytes limit on the key size. Berkeley DB's disk format does not impose a limit on key or value size

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-02 Thread Howard Chu
suitable than MDB, but so far I haven't seen it. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-07-02 Thread Howard Chu
/003009.html We're well into the 2nd decade of the 21st century. These problems shouldn't exist any more. -- -- Howard Chu CTO, Symas Corp. http://www.symas.com Director, Highland Sun http://highlandsun.com/hyc/ Chief Architect, OpenLDAP http://www.openldap.org/project

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-02 Thread Howard Chu
Florian Weimer wrote: * Howard Chu: We can provide plenty more documentation on LMDB performance and reliability if desired. Can you cope with incompletely written pages (e.g., only the first 512 bytes of a page is written) or write reordering between fsyncs? Berkeley DB doesn't deal

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-02 Thread Howard Chu
Florian Weimer wrote: * Howard Chu: We require that fsync() (actually fdatasync()) doesn't lie. Data pages can be written in any order, as long as all outstanding data pages are actually written by the time fsync returns. Given this constraint, you can pull the power on a drive and the DB

Re: boot ordering and resolvconf

2013-07-02 Thread Howard Chu
Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 12:38:24PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: Don Armstrong wrote: On Tue, 02 Jul 2013, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: Automatic processes overwrite explicit admin setups. If /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink to somewhere else, then it's appropriate for automatic

Re: integrating PAM module into nss-ldapd (RFH)

2009-05-16 Thread Howard Chu
Arthur de Jong wrote: Hello list (I've put a couple of people in Bcc to try to get more feedback), I'm working on integrating a PAM module into nss-ldapd and am looking for input on this. The PAM module was kindly provided by Howard Chu from the OpenLDAP project but I'm still working