From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 09:15:04 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC4516A4B3 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:15:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D2264400D for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:15:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: from blues.seekingfire.prv (blues.seekingfire.prv [192.168.23.211]) by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4B60123 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:15:02 -0600 (CST) Received: (from tillman@localhost) by blues.seekingfire.prv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h8PGF2p25451 for freebsd-security@freebsd.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:15:02 -0600 Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:15:02 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030925101502.M18252@seekingfire.com> References: <20030924145029.V18252@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from rwatson@freebsd.org on Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:56:04AM -0400 X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers Subject: Re: unified authentication X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Security issues [members-only posting] List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:15:04 -0000 On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 11:56:04AM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > 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. I'd love to use AFS, so I'm encouraged when I hear that. But Arla has been marked as broken since May 17, 2002. And while I haven't tried it in a few months, I've been unable to get the OpenAFS server building on -STABLE (i386) or -CURRENT (sparc64). I suspect that it might work on -CURRENT (i386) but I don't have a test box for that handy. If somebody has it working reliably enough to make a port ... :-) -T -- Say something about a thing and already you're off the mark. Nan-Yueh Huai-Jang