[OpenAFS-devel] kpasswd (S/390)

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Tue, 22 May 2001, Carsten Jacobi wrote:

> Indeed, maybe the right way to go is PAM. But it is also not bad if there
> are some tools available as backup one can rely on. For example if for
> some reasons the AFS password can not be changed with plain "passwd" a
> sysadmin could still use (now) kapasswd to find out whether the error
> is located in AFS or in PAM.

The problem with just setting up passwd to use the PAM approach to AFS
password changing is there are cases where what you want is to set a local
password, and there are cases where you don't want to allow that. It's
very site-specific, and it gets ugly quickly.

Installing AFS kpasswd as (only) kapasswd generally would make people who
use OpenAFS as a drop in replacement for their IBM AFS rather unhappy.

-D