[OpenAFS] OpenAFS + Linux +XP

[Rodney M Dyer]

At 01:00 PM 1/22/2004, Jeffrey Altman wrote:
>Rodney uses a modified version of the integrated login which performs the 
>kinit and aklogsteps in an external process instead of relying on the k4 
>support built into OpenAFS.  More than likely he is bypassing the cause of 
>the blue screen.

You are correct.  We do use a minimally altered version of the AFS logon 
authenticator "afslogon.dll" that we compile 
ourselves.  See...http://www.coe.uncc.edu/~rmdyer/afslogonshell.htm

The "altered" part is simply a single line of code addition for exec'ing a 
shell.  But, we've only been using this method since we moved to 
OpenAFS...since of course, I didn't have the source for Transarc's version 
and other reasons.

But laughing, I would be surprised if anything I do "prevents" a blue 
screen for us!  The normal "unmodified" AFS logon authenticator has never 
failed on me.  I may be wrong, my memory is poor these days.  The code in 
the OpenAFS authenticator DLL is pretty generic, I doubt there's anything 
there that would cause a blue screen as none of it runs in the kernel.

Rodney