KfW starting and stopping Network Identity Manager

[Jeffrey Altman]

petesea at bigfoot.com wrote:
> So is killing the process the "correct" way to terminate it from the 
> command line?  I'm actually killing it from a Cygwin-based Perl script via 
> "/bin/kill -f PID" .  I'd prefer to use a more "friendly" way to tell 
> netidmgr to shutdown, but so far killing it's the only way I've found. 
> (See below for reasons why I need it to shutdown.)

You could write a small application that sends a window message to
NetIDMgr to shut it down.  However, there is no state maintained by
NetIDMgr that must be safed at shutdown so simply killing the process
is fairly safe.  The only thing is that the icon in the taskbar will
not be removed.

> Other then netidmgr and krbcc32s, are there any other processes I might 
> need to look for?  And if so, do any of these have a "correct" way to shut 
> them down?  NOTE: KfW is only used by SSH (currently a GSSAPI-enabled 
> version of PuTTY).

There are other applications that will load the MIT libraries including
Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird, several FTP clients, Eudora, X
Windows packages, etc.  Your installer needs to be able to identify
file usage and either instruct the user to exit the applications or
be prepared to wait until a reboot to complete the upgrade.

Jeffrey Altman