On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:58:15PM +0000, Steve Simon wrote: > > AFS has its warts, but, trust me, if you've used it for a while, > > you will not find yourself excitedly perusing the volume location > > database to see where your bits are coming from. > > Is there an AFS client for plan9 anywhere?
AFAIK no. There's a long list of things that would have to happen before this was feasable, not the least of which is to get factotum speaking Kerberos (V5, and the 5to4 wedge... sigh). It might be possible to bring the RxRPC libraries over without too much pain. And that's just getting started. You can sort of, ish, emulate AFS on Plan 9 by having a UNIX box running an AFS client and your Kerberos credentials and then importing /afs via SSH. Crude hack, but works. It might be an interesting project for some student(s) to reimplement Kerberos 5 for Plan 9... it's something of an open question of just how minimal and tasteful the implementation can be when it's not MIT code. ;) --nwf;
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