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

[David Botsch]

Well,
It seems to be impossible to sign up for ADC membership if one already 
has an apple id (required to report a bug).


On 2002.10.04 16:03 Joseph Jackson wrote:
> 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.
> 
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