Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 10:15:02 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unified authentication Message-ID: <20030925101502.M18252@seekingfire.com> 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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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
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