[OpenAFS] some basic infos about security

Derrick J Brashear shadow@dementia.org
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 18:18:19 -0400 (EDT)


On Thu, 10 Apr 2003, Lo'oRiS il Kabukimono wrote:

> Oh, i'd like an stronger authentication method like the AFS one, but since
> i need it to mount /home, i do not see how i could do that.
>
> If i could share the user database (and passwords) between Linux and AFS
> itself... and have a login program that asks a single login and logs it in
> the system and also in AFS...
>
> Am i the only one to need such a thing? Weird.

Nope. Other people have needed, and had it, for longer than I've used
unix. Welcome to Kerberos.

-D