Re: tmda-cgi setup problem

Kevin Goodsell <[email protected]> Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:37:52 -0800
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On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 5:55 PM, P.V.Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 3/8/2011 9:42 AM, Gerd Katzenbeisser wrote:
>> I agree - you could try the fork of Kevin Goodsell which should work
>> for Python 2.6 (and maybe 2.7)
>
> Even for the web interface?
>

No, not for tmda-cgi. I did import tmda-cgi into my repository (as
noted in another reply), but I never updated it (aside from some
largely automatic, non-functional updates such as indentation). I
can't say for sure that it *doesn't* work with the updated TMDA, but I
would be rather surprised if it did. I believe interfaces have been
changed that tmda-cgi uses, though I didn't keep a record of these
changes and can't say what they are without going back through the
commit logs and/or examining diffs.

The wiki on the GitHub project mentions that tmda-cgi isn't supported.
That's always a good place to check on GitHub projects (and Google
Code, etc., though often there's nothing there).

I seem to recall that tmda-cgi has its own authentication module
largely copied/pasted from tmda-ofmipd. That part of tmda-ofmipd has
been almost completely replaced in my fork, so these two separate
authentication modules may no longer be compatible. Certainly they are
incompatible under certain usages, since the new tmda-ofmipd
authentication supports a new mode (PAM) and a new way of chaining
authentication mechanisms.

As for Python 2.7, I think it should be supported but I haven't tested
it. There could be new deprecation warnings, but compatibility breaks
are somewhat unlikely since the Python team tries to avoid those. The
compatibility issue from 2.4 to 2.5 was kind of a fluke.

-Kevin

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