[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Debian in a Transarc AFS served Cell... HELP!!!!!

[Markus Blatt]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 05:07:02PM +0100, Paolo.Saggese@libero.it wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Then I set up the NIS; no problems, either.
> 
> Of course now I have to set up PAM for users authentication... and here comes 
> the troubles! :-(
> 
> On Debian packages there seems to be no "pam_afs.so" module, which is what I 
> have used on the other boxes for the authentication! :-/  :-?
> 
> Our cell is served by an IBM AIX server running Transarc AFS stuff.
> 
> What can I do?
> 

Hi,

we had the same problem when switching our afs-clients to version 1.2.2
on our debian woody workstations.
Unfortunately the debian packages do not contain the any pam-modules as
it is recommended to use kerberos for authentication.
But there is of course a work around:

You can install the debian source package of openafs. Unpack the sources
and then make some modifications to the debian/rules file:

In the rule for the libopenafs package there exists a line which removes
all pam-modules. We changed that to copy the modules to /lib/security.

No you just build your own packages with 
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot
in the main source directory.

You then have to install libopenafs in addition to the other packages
you want.

Markus
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