From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 4 12: 8:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD3C937B403 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 12:08:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hilfy.ece.cmu.edu (HILFY.ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.136.133]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f94J86l17181; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 15:08:06 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2001 15:07:21 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: Danny Braniss , Tim Kellers Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AFS for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <12000000.1002222441@hilfy.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0 (SunOS/SPARC) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, October 04, 2001 21:04:51 +0200, Danny Braniss wrote: +----- | > NIS is beginning (continuing) to make my life miserable and I'd like to | > find out if AFS (or it's clone) is more agreeable. | | sorry, but what's the connection between Nis and AFS? +--->8 I assume it was a typo/thinko for NFS.... While AFS's Kerberos infrastructure supports distributed passwords, you really need something like Hesiod or LDAP to complement it (and you really, really want to run something other than AFS's kaserver to get Kerberos...). -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][freebsd] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [JAPH][WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university [linux: proof of the million monkeys theory] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message