Subject: AFS and Macintoshes
From: Patrick J. LoPresti (patl@curl.com)
Date: Sun Dec 17 2000 - 20:25:59 EST
We are considering deploying AFS at our organization. In addition to
Linux, Solaris, and Windows clients, we have to worry about Macs;
specifically, MacOS 8.5, 9, and (soon) X.
We can probably wait for the native OpenAFS client for OS X to
stabilize. But we need to support 8.5 and 9 right away.
I have searched the info-afs and netatalk-admins archives. I have
browsed the UMich RSUG pages. I have stumbled onto AuthMan and the
AuthMan UAM:
http://www.umich.edu/~rsug/authman/
...but some messages from the netatalk-admins archive suggest that
this version of AuthMan may not work with OS 8.5 and higher.
But then, I see a link to a slightly different version of the tools at
this URL:
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/mackerb.html
However, I am not even sure AuthMan/AuthMan UAM are the tools I want.
So my question is this: What is the best way to provide access to AFS
for Macs? What software do I need, and where should I obtain it? Is
the 1.5 prerelease of netatalk at http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/
suitable?
What do most organizations with AFS and Macs do?
(Note: In our environment, we do not particularly care about sending
cleartext passwords. And we do not care about any services except
AFS. So Kerberos is not a requirement; a version of netatalk which
simply used the cleartext password to get AFS tokens would be fine.)
Thanks in advance for any answers!
- Pat
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