Toolkit initialization implications

[Robert Olson]

At 04:14 PM 5/9/2003 -0500, Ivan R. Judson wrote:

>This large change this close the the code freeze is very worrysome to me.

I wouldn't consider this a large change. It's a set of small changes that 
make  the security-related initialization of the various part of the system 
sane.

>We need to have seem this kind of outline of what was involved to have made
>a better decision as to whether we should have solved cert mgmt this way or
>not.

Solved it which way? The cert mgr code has been around for quite some time 
now, and I've not heard any objections to the way its been solved.

>This is not to say that this isn't a good way to solve the problem, it's
>hard to tell -- but we've just added more work to our load by making this
>change and it's all new to everyone but you.  This isn't really the best
>time to be making that kind of change to the assumptions.

Which assumptions - that we want to have a sane environment in which to run 
the code?

>I don't think we have any choice at this point about using it, but I'm
>extremely concerned at what it might mean for us actually meeting our
>timeline. I'm also frustrated at the lack of information that was presented
>before these changes were made.

I think I've sent out more information than anyone else on any of the 
system-wide changes that have been made to the system.