[OpenAFS] What's the status of 2.6 linux kernel support?

John Koyle jkoyle@rfpdepot.com
Mon, 02 Aug 2004 15:27:49 -0600


Alexander Boström wrote:

>On mån, 2004-08-02 at 14:34 -0600, John Koyle wrote:
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>>If you use Kerberos V as a back end, what's the status of utilities 
>>(afslog,aklog) to convert tickets to tokens?  I have AFS compiled on 
>>SuSE v9.1 and can see the cell, afslog just doesn't work.
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>>I realize these packages come from heimdal/MIT folks and they're 
>>responsible for them, but I believe it's a relevant on this list - and 
>>the folks who maintain them lurk here also ;)
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>I'm not a Heimdal person, but anyway:
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>The new ioctl based kernel interface is implemented in lib/kafs/afssys.c
>in the Heimdal CVS repo. It's not in any release, but I suppose you can
>grab the patch from CVS or from one of the snapshots, add it to the SuSE
>heimdal source RPM and recompile.
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Creating/applying that patch to the SuSE RPM worked.

Thanks,
John