[OpenAFS] Using OpenAFS filesystems from daemons?

[Ed L Cashin]

Derrick J Brashear <shadow@dementia.org> writes:

> On Mon, 14 May 2001, Eric Knudstrup wrote:
> 
> > I want to be able to use my afs filesystem from my web server (ie, nobody
> > present to klog), and I was wondering where it might be documented?
> 
> If you have kerberos tools, just use either ksrvtgt or kauth, then call
> aklog, in your script. you'll need to set up an appropriately owned srvtab
> or keytab, obviously

If you aren't using Kerberos can't you set up a machine-based group,
if there are no users on the web server except admins?  I might have
gotten the term wrong, since I'm reading the IBM docs now and may have
forgotten -- you were supposed to be able to grant rights based on
IP. 

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