[OpenAFS-devel] AFS + LDAP

[Nathan Neulinger]

There's a standard in place for doing AFS CellServDB via DNS using AFSDB
records, but it hasn't been ported to the OpenAFS code yet.

Is anyone actually working on getting it ported? I know it was on the
projects list.

-- Nathan

Peter Popovics wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In our corporate installation I have used openldap to distribute CellServDB
> information to our workstations. I have done it in an ugly and non-standard
> way, just by defining an LDAP objectclass for myself... Looks something
> like:
> 
> dn: afscell=dtv.dk, ou=Misc, o=dtv, c=dk
> objectclass: afs_CellServDB_entry
> description: DTV AFS Cell Database Servers
> afscell: dtv.dk         # DTV
> cellserver: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx    # afs1.dtv.dk
> cellserver: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx    # afs2.dtv.dk
> cellserver: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx    # afs3.dtv.dk
> 
> I know that it's not the best way to do this. Is there a more standard way
> to do this (With LDAP)? Does OpenAFS has OID's registered? Is there anyone
> trying to form an LDAP schema to store AFS information in it?
> 
> P.Peter
> 
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