[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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