[OpenAFS-devel] Starting fs without salvaging...

[Derek Atkins]

At least at MIT they use Moira (which is backed by Oracle) for user
account information management, but the KDC is still using "db" for
key storage.

-derek

"D. Hageman" <dhageman@eecs.ukans.edu> writes:

> Nathan,
> 
> The network setup you describe sounds very impressive.  The most
> interesting part of it was that you are utilizing a full kerberos 5 setup.
> This is something that we are very interested in doing.  The general
> timeline that we would like is to first implement krb5 for all the systems
> and then attempt to transition OpenAFS into the grand scheme of things.
> 
> One of the items that concerns me is user management.  With such a large
> system that you have, I am wondering how easy user management is?  We have
> been toying around with the idea of making a SQL backend (most likely we
> will use PostgreSQL) to the MIT Kerberos package.  A couple of other
> reasons why we are wanting something like a generic way to store user
> account management is because of the web systems and a potential wireless
> lan setup for the engineering buildings.  We figure that we will have
> better luck with a SQL backend then berkley dbs.
> 
> At any rate, those are kinda my thoughts on the matter.  I apreciate any
> feedback or recommondations that you might have to offer on the subject
> matter.
> 
> > Yes, for 1000+ NT stations, and 200-300 unix stations (mix of hp, solaris,
> > linux, with a couple sgis thrown in, although we are trying to get out of
> > them as there are only 3 of them.) We have 9 afs servers at the moment, 3
> > are DB-only on suns, and the rest are a mix of suns and linux, for about 1.4
> > Tb, of which most is wasted space due to administrative decisions on how to
> > handle quotas.
> >
> > We're also fully krb5, no kaservers. (Moving to ADS gradually as well...
> > have yet to see how that will work out in the end.)
> 
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