Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:06:50 -0600 From: "David G. Andersen" <danderse@cs.utah.edu> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unified authentication Message-ID: <20030925100650.B80664@cs.utah.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030925115500.50146D-100000@fledge.watson.org>; from rwatson@freebsd.org on Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:56:04AM -0400 References: <20030924145029.V18252@seekingfire.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030925115500.50146D-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson just mooed: > > 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. If the client machines are semi-trusted, SFS is a good solution. I don't know that its authentication is integrated with kerberos, but the security model is at least stronger than NFS: Root on a client machine could gain access to users accounts if they accessed them from that machine, but not to accounts that merely were OK to export to that machine. http://www.fs.net/ -Dave -- work: dga@lcs.mit.edu me: dga@pobox.com MIT Laboratory for Computer Science http://www.angio.net/ I do not accept unsolicited commercial email. Do not spam me.
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