STATUS:
07-21-1998
DCE client functionality is now available. This change release will
give you a turnkey DCE build for Redhat Linux 5.0/5.1 (Intel). You
can insert Linux DCE clients into vendor DCE cells as well as
configure Linux machines as DCE cell servers. We have not tested cell
server functionality nearly as much as we have client functionality.
Work in progress includes a Linux DCE PAM module, NSS services
and support for using a DFS/NFS authenticated file access gateway.
SNAP007 also includes support for a Tcl 8.0 based 'dcecp'. FreeBSD integration
is now underway and slated for SNAP008.
STATUS: 06-19-1998
SNAP006 is now available. I fixed some major bugs in the DCE Threads
adaptation library.
DCE Exceptions, with proper signal and cancel semantics,
works. dced, secd and cdsd will come up.
I am working on a last minute gotcha with CDSADV/CDSCLERK
that causes final DCE client configuration
to hang. SNAP007 plans include 64-bit changes for
Linux and FreeBSD as well as integration of work
done on NetBSD that provides fully operational cell server
and client capability.
STATUS: 04-16-1998
SNAP005 is out one week after SNAP004! We now have working authenticated and unauthenticated RPC. dce_login works against a DCE cell running on an AIX 4.2 host ; you can now get a DCE login context on a Linux box. In addition, you can use dcecp and rgy_edit to create and change account information on the security server. The sec_admin command also properly works. Next on our agenda is fixing dced so that we can insert Linux machines into existing cells. Other folks are already working on secd and cdsd, which will allow us to run DCE cells from Linux.
STATUS: 04-09-1998
SNAP004 is out. No new FreeBSD functionality at this time. SNAP004
delivers working, interoperable unauthenticated RPC support for Linux.
We are working on getting authenticated RPC to work as well as fixing a
problem with the DCE Security server. SNAP004 provides functionality on
Redhat Linux 5.0 using native LinuxThreads. We are excited that we have
been successful at abandoning the outdated user-space DCE Threads library
that many vendor implementations of DCE rely on. This release is
likely only to be useful to hard-core DCE developers who can cope with
downloading DCE, applying my patches and working with the build environment.
Historical Stuff
Free DCE 1.2.2 For Linux/FreeBSD - Developers Snapshot 006