[OpenAFS] PHP and AFS?

Russ Allbery rra@stanford.edu
Wed, 25 Dec 2002 10:53:01 -0800


Andrew Leahy <aleahy@knox.edu> writes:

> I think the question was along the lines of a question I've had for a
> while:  Are there any API's for administering AFS from a scripting
> language?  For instance, there are some nice object-oriented API's in
> Perl and PHP which make it easy to design web-based interfaces for
> manipulating an LDAP server.  Clearly, it's possible to use these
> scripting languages to call external AFS programs, but manually parsing
> the output of all of the different AFS programs is likely to become
> tedious.

There is an AFS Perl module that wraps the AFS API into something more
Perl-friendly.  I don't know if anyone has done anything similar for other
scripting languages.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>