[OpenAFS] login information

[Nathan Neulinger]

Correct, afs and kerberos only do authentication, they do not do
authorization (except in very limited cases.) The usual approach is to
define the password file in NIS/NIS+/LDAP/HESIOD/etc. but put a
null/invalid password in the password field, then to put pam'ified or
replacement /bin/login commands on the unix stations.

-- Nathan

Corey Kovacs wrote:
> 
> First, thanx again to everyone who responded to my previous question
> regarding the volume creation error. The solution was of course that I
> had skipped a step (restarting the server process) all is well with the
> volumes now :)
> 
> New Question:
> 
> I want to use the AFS server to handle the authentication for the
> clients as
> well as supply their home directories etc. so that the users have only
> to issue
> one password response. I have read that one must either have local login
> 
> information (home dir etc) predefined by some other means, either by
> using a bunk passwd file or NIS/NIS+ etc. In the documentation for
> AFS it seems to point out under creating users etc that you can set this
> 
> information through AFS. Is this true or must I use one of the other
> mechanisms?
> 
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