[OpenAFS] Future of AFS? Interesting Ideas!?

[Benjamin Rodewald]

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On Monday 16 December 2002 18:28, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> Seems to me that if someone wanted to replace pts, the approach that
> needs to be taken is to provide a ptserver that uses ldap as it's back
> end, if that is even possible.
>
> Then, you could just distribute two ptserver's, one that used ubik
> internally, the other that passed through all queries to an ldap server=
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This is a really good idea.=20
It is always difficult to find a point for glueing things together.
Maybe the reimplementation of ptserver ( with ldap backend ) could be a s=
tep=20
in the right direction.

> Feel free to implement and submit a path.

I am willing to lookk for a path and to stress test my and other peolpes=20
concepts.=20
But I am unable to do a rewrite of ptserver without support of other peop=
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more familiar with afs and more familiar with ldap than me.


> For authentication, Kerberos is already there and available, seems like
> no reason exists to reinvent that wheel.
>
Same with me. Kerberso is already there but must be better documented in=20
conjunction with afs.

Benjamin

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Benjamin Rodewald
 linuxfriendly.de - penguin empowered
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