Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:56:04 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unified authentication Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030925115500.50146D-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20030924145029.V18252@seekingfire.com>
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Tillman Hodgson wrote: > > Once I get authentication working, how do I handle > > the creation of home directories and basic user > > files across multiple machines? > > > > Do I need to start running NFS, or is there a more > > elegant solution? > > OpenAFS, very elegant solution. Unfortunately, it doesn't work on > FreeBSD yet (or anymore as a client). The Arla client used to work quite well, and probably still works quite well on 4.x. I'm not sure of the status of Arla on 5.x. It sounded like Tom Maher had the OpenAFS server code up and running on FreeBSD, so you should at least have access to a pair of AFS client/server that work. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories
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