[OpenAFS] ACLs and open-afs

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Fri, 11 Oct 2002 10:22:22 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, James L Robinson wrote:

> Add to that mix their other juicy issue of principal names being either
> X.500 names or K5 principal names and the desire to allow for
> a server to deal with both correctly, and you've got a complex
> system on your hands.

Realize that eventually we need to consider how to handle this problem
for AFS, though in a slightly different scope due to PTS.

> with the Win32 support, as I bet a lot of sites do. Somebody could
> make a good bit of cash selling support to universities by producing
> a commercial Win32 client.

Someone did (well, for NT/2000/XP) and to be honest I still have no idea
why they're quitting the business.