[OpenAFS-port-darwin] aklog/afslog at console login and Mac OS 10.2

[Joseph Jackson]

Sigh. I'm in charge of the macosxlabs.org project, though it's mostly a 
few others who contribute documentation. I believe we may have 
published an incorrect statement. I'm just upgrading to 10.2 on my main 
desktop today, so I'll get those docs corrected once I know what I'm 
talking about. I'll be sure to bring this up during our next group conf 
call.

I have some contacts at Apple who I can get advice from on the AFS 
authentication issue. I doubt that they would distribute an 
authenticator, given that they don't distribute the OpenAFS client, but 
we can probably get some questions answered.

Apple has a web page where anyone can report bugs or make enhancement 
requests. Asking for a bridge to tie loginwindow to PAM sounds 
reasonable to me.
   http://developer.apple.com/bugreporter

Joe Jackson,
Carnegie Mellon University.

On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 03:37 PM, David Botsch wrote:

> Looking back at the pam port that was being done by padl, it looks 
> like they were actually working on a bridge to allow loginwindow to 
> use pam. Even more interesting is that macosxlabs.org actually states 
> that you can use pam to extend the loginwindow (so, maybe they made 
> the same wrong assumptions?).
>
> does anyone have a contact at Apple to either request an afs 
> authenticator for loginwindow or a pam authenticator for the 
> loginwindow? As MacOSXlabs states, pam would allow loginwindow to be 
> extremely extendable.