[TriLUG] Network file system.

Tanner Lovelace lovelace at wayfarer.org
Fri Aug 23 13:33:19 EDT 2002


On Fri, 2002-08-23 at 11:11, Ben Simpson wrote:
> Will AFS or Coda use my existing LDAP users?  Or does it have its own users?

AFS can use kerberos, but if you don't have that it has it's
own system.  I don't think it'll use LDAP.

Also, one thing to note about AFS.  AFS doesn't have the same
concept of file permissions that unix does.  In AFS, everything
is done by directory permissions (using it's concept of users).
This can make for some interesting things if you're not aware of it.

Also, running cron jobs with AFS is problematic.  Because it
uses kerberos, your kerberos ticket can expire periodically.
When that happens, you have to get another ticket before you
can access the filesystem.

Tanner
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