[OpenAFS] Some beginner questions

Ted Anderson TedAnderson@mindspring.com
Thu, 17 Oct 2002 08:30:40 -0400


On 10/16/2002 10:49, Daniel Clark/Cambridge/IBM wrote:
 >>>2. Can non-interactive scripts access AFS space?  ...
 > Another option is OpenPBS [1] and Password Storage and Retrieval (PSR)
 > [2], where you encrypt your AFS password with a public key and put it
 > in your home directory, and trusted machine(s) which have the private
 > key on local disk then decrypt your password and run your job. MIT
 > uses a variant of this [3] [4] that uses their own code (see [5]
 > sections III and IV) instead of PSR.
 >
 > [1] http://www.openpbs.org/
 > [2] http://www.lam-mpi.org/software/psr/
 > [3] http://web.mit.edu/longjobs/www/
 > [4] http://mit.edu/longjobs-dev/notebook/
 > [5] http://web.mit.edu/longjobs-dev/doc/netsec.txt

This seemed like a really good set of references, so I added them to the
AFS FAQ in the AFSLore Wiki[1].

Ted Anderson

[1]
https://grand.central.org/twiki/bin/view/AFSLore/AdminFAQ#3_08_How_can_I_run_daemons_with_