[OpenAFS] Re: Setting Up OpenAFS on FreeBSD

[Andrew Deason]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:29:04 -0700
Tim Gustafson <tjg@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:

> I was able to get past this problem by using FreeBSD's Kerberos
> server.  I was previously trying to integrate with our MIT Kerberos
> server, but that seems to be problematic.

To be clear, that previous error should not be caused by any interaction
with the KDC; that is an error reached while just looking at the local
filesystem. It could have been triggered by troubles with the key
extraction, though.

> So, I set up FreeBSD Kerberos and now I've gotten to this command:
> 
> root@host: pts createuser -name tjg -id 1234 -localauth
> pts: Couldn't read/write the database ; unable to create user tjg with id 1234

Can you read from the database ('pts examine system:anyuser')? Is there
anything in PtLog? I don't know where PtLog is with the paths the
FreeBSD port uses, but it's wherever the other logs are. Can you check
that prdb.DB0 and prdb.DBSYS exist, and appear to be writeable by root?
I'm not sure where these are in the FreeBSD port, either, but they
should be in a /var/lib-like location.

I'm not sure if I've ever seen someone actually encounter that error
before. Keep in mind it may be possible you are encountering
BSD-specific bugs in OpenAFS, since I don't think modern AFS dbservers
on any BSD are very common. (Not that the servers should have much
platform-specific code in them...)

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Andrew Deason
adeason@sinenomine.net