[OpenAFS] Port 4444?

Matthew Weigel unique@idempot.net
Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:54:16 -0500 (CDT)


Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> I've been testing 1.4.  It seems like aklog still needs port 4444 on
> the Kerberos server opened.  My Kerberos v5 server is on a different
> computer than the OpenAFS server.  Some of the docs I'm reading seem
> to indicate that port 4444 is only needed to convert between v5 and v4
> tokens.  Thanks for any clarification.

AFS requires v4 tickets, so aklog uses a v5 ticket to acquire a v4 ticket
for use with AFS.  That is, aklog acts as one part of the bridge to get
AFS to work in a Kerberos v5 domain.
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