[OpenAFS] kaserver

David J. M. Karlsen david+afsinfo@davidkarlsen.com
Sun, 06 Jan 2002 16:54:28 +0100


Derrick J Brashear wrote:

>>I installed the openafs-kpasswd package - this should be "equvalent" to 
>>Kerberos right?
>>
>
>No. It's the kpasswd binary only for talking to a kaserver.
>
OK - no wonder it didn't work

>>so - reading the IBM manuals - and they refer to they refer to a 
>>kaserver - which I don't have. kas is there - but it has no server to 
>>talk to.
>>
>
>The install script probably suggests you use a kerberos 5 server, and asks
>if you meet the prerequisites (the "server" install script). If you do
>use kerberos 5, that also has an install script which will set up a realm
>for you. If you do this, the openafs scripts should then set up the rest
>of a server for you. 
>
OK - I'll go for heimdal instead then - I just thought it would be 
easier to get going with one problem at a time.

>>also - the pammodules are not installed - and I can't find them 
>>anyewhere. I see the sourcefiles are under the modules directory - but 
>>this should only provide openafs.o - the module for my kernel ??? seems 
>>like there is a lot of other stuff in this dir as well? am I missing 
>>something with this package? Alle the readme's I've been reading only 
>>tells me to make my kernel , unpack the module and run a make-kpkg 
>>modules_image (which works fine). ???
>>
>
>I can't comment on why the pam modules aren't packaged but if you install
>a kerberos 5 server, you'd be using other modules anyway.
>
Which ones?
I thought it would use pam_afs.krb ?