unified authentication

[Tillman Hodgson]

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


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