[OpenAFS-devel] AFS Authentication through LDAP

Ray Link rlink+@pitt.edu
Thu, 27 Dec 2001 16:31:13 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Frank J. Cameron wrote:

> The University of Pittsburgh is/was working with Novell to synchronize
> accounts between AFS and NDS.
>
> http://www.technology.pitt.edu/projects/cds2/index.html

But it's synchronization only.  The NDS system sends create/delete
requests to an intermediary system which performs the Kerberos account
creations and deletions.  Ticket-granting on all AFS-aware systems is
still done via AFS/Kerberos authentication;  no LDAP lookups are done
whatsoever.

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