[OpenAFS] client without a server

[Derek Atkins]

Run afs with -dynroot

-derek

"Klaas Hagemann" <kerberos@northsailor.de> writes:

> Hello,
> 
> i just recognized, that the afs-client will run into a long time-out, if no
> afs-server is available.
> Then it won't really start, although the libafs-module is loaded (i am using
> suse linux).
> 
> BTW, does anyone has a solution for this problem? To my point of view the
> afs client should come up although without an afs server and should work
> automatically as soon as an afs-dbms is available.
> 
> Klaas
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "klaas hagemann" <klaas@northsailor.de>
> To: <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>; <openafs-info@openafs.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 2:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] client without a server
> 
> 
> > Hello (or Hallo ;-) ) Helmut,
> >
> > you can start the afs-client without an afs-server as far as i can see it.
> > But feel free to correct my.
> > You just cannot use any functions of the afs-client.
> > The pam-afs Modul you are using uses these functions .
> >
> > So you should change your /etc/pam.d/login like this:
> >
> > login auth       requisite  pam_securetty.so
> > login auth       sufficient   pam_unix.so
> > login auth        required pam_afs.so debug try_first_pass ignore_root
> > login auth       optional   pam_group.so
> > login account    requisite  pam_time.so
> > login account    required   pam_unix.so
> > login password   required   pam_cracklib.so retry=3
> > login password   required   pam_unix.so shadow md5 use_authtok
> > login session    required   pam_unix.so
> >
> > So the login-session will be terminatet, if the pam_unix is sufficient.
> > To make this usefull, users should have a different password in afs then
> on
> > the unix-box (otherwise it won't get to pam_afs.so).
> >
> > Klaas
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
> > To: <openafs-info@openafs.org>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:38 PM
> > Subject: [OpenAFS] client without a server
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to have the possibility to run a client even if the
> > > afs server is not available.
> > > Currently I get (lots of) messages
> > > Lost contact of volume location server ...
> > >
> > > and even worse, I cannot login (as non-root)
> > >
> > > here is (the relevant part of) my file  /etc/pam.conf
> > >
> > > # The PAM configuration file for the `login' service
> > > #
> > > login auth       requisite  pam_securetty.so
> > > login auth       required   pam_unix.so
> > > login auth       sufficient pam_afs.so debug try_first_pass ignore_root
> > > login auth       optional   pam_group.so
> > > login account    requisite  pam_time.so
> > > login account    required   pam_unix.so
> > > login password   required   pam_cracklib.so retry=3
> > > login password   required   pam_unix.so shadow md5 use_authtok
> > > login session    required   pam_unix.so
> > >
> > > Any help is very much appreciated,
> > >
> > > Helmut Jarausch
> > >
> > > Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
> > > Institute of Technology, RWTH Aachen
> > > D 52056 Aachen, Germany
> > >
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