[OpenAFS] Future of AFS? Interesting Ideas!?

[Nathan Neulinger]

I would tend to agree on the "not hard" part. Replacing ubik/pts with
ldap just seems like a bad idea to me.

Now, making it VERY easy to import/export from pts on the other hand,
that would be a good idea. 

Unless of course you're talking about full multi-directional
synchronization, in which case, yeah, it gets a little more difficult -
but most places I've heard of that have "enterprise permissions + user
info" facilities in place do not care about bidirectional, they just
don't want to have to reproduce data everywhere by hand, in which case,
a simple periodic import is all that would be needed. 

-- Nathan

Best thing I could suggest
On Sun, 2002-12-15 at 18:52, Matthew Cocker wrote:
> > 
> > Why should I want to admin LDAP Corp. Directory, PT DB and Kerberos?
> > It`s very hard to keep it in sync. 
> > 
> 
>   Not really. We have probably taken the hardest approach doing it all 
> in C but at the moment we have a user/password syncing system that keeps 
> 2 MS ADs, a printing/IP qouta management system, a krb5 system (all with 
> (>200000) and and LDAP system synced (subset of 10000 users). We 
> populate PTS via perl scripts from ldap but will soon be moving it to C 
> programs using the afs libs as we move to improve speed and reliablity. 
> We will also be moving the ldap to edirectory from openldap and will 
> therefore be adding NDS to the systems supported.
> 
> The key is the metadirectory. If you have a good one then the rest is 
> easy but without one it's almost impossible. Novell's edirectory and 
> dirxml are a very nice off the shelve solution. All some one would have 
> to do is write an XML driver for afs and you would have a complete package.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Matt
> 
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