Dear People,
I just sent the following, rather clueless, and somewhat Debian-specific
message to the openafs-info mailing list. If anyone has any insights to
share they would be welcome. Does anyone here have any experience setting
up an openafs server on Debian and would be willing to share his
experiences? If it is not already obvious, I know almost nothing about
kerberos and precious little about afs. You can cc me if you want, though
I can check replies via gmane. Thanks.
Faheem.
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2003 15:45:59 -0400 (EDT)
From: Faheem Mitha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: some simple openafs questions
Dear People,
I'm ashamed to admit that I have been administering openafs clients on
Linux for over two years, but still lack a basic understanding of how
openafs actually works. So here are some very simple and probably
rather silly questions. They are regarding things where I find the
online documentation not completely clear. I should say that I use
openafs on Debian (testing), which does so much of the configuration
that it makes it easy to be ignorant, though the choice of course is
mine. In what follows, the documentation refers to that obtained by
following the Documentation link from openafs.org, which seems to be
mostly IBM's own documentation.
Also, I'm using AFS on the University of North Carolina campus.
1) When using an afs client, the command `klog' fetches tokens from
the campus server. Am I correct in thinking that this fetching
involves use of kerberos on the campus server? I don't have
kerberos installed on my client machine, though I have seen
descriptions which involve installation of kerberos on the client
machine. Is kerberos not required at the client end?
2) I'm considering trying to install a Openafs server on a Debian
machine. I am not completely clear from the documentation whether
it is actually nececssary to install and configure kerberos
(kerberos 5 seems to be the preferred version). Parts of the
documentation suggest that one could use the `afs authentication
system', whatever this is. Adding to my confusion is that the
openafs debian packages openafs-dbserver and openafs-fileserver do
not mention kerberos even as a recommends.
If it is not necessary, is it still desirable to use kerberos?
Does a tutorial for AFS server installation on Debian exist anywhere?
My impression is no.
Thanks in advance. Please cc me on any reply.
Faheem.
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