[OpenAFS-devel] RE: Information on Windows 2k Integrated Logon

James Peterson jimpeter@us.ibm.com
Fri, 7 Sep 2001 17:00:06 -0700


> So basically:
>  - a network provider is registered
>  - a callback for NPLogonNotify to afslogon.dll is setup
>    - the username and password are passed into afslogon.dll
>    - a token is grabbed

> Two things that occur to me:
>
> I notice a similar function NPPasswordChangeNotify that
> just returns 0.  So, someday users can change their NT
> passwords and keep their AFS passwords in sync?

Not clear how your idea would work.  AFS intentionally does not keep
passwords in any of its' structures.

> NPLogonNotify supports returning a logon script name. So,
> it is possible to have AFS logon scripts?

It is certaintly possible to have AFS logon scripts.  Of course Windows 98
- Windows 2000 can all have logon scripts and some AFS users have used it
to provide special drive mappings and authenication.