Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-31 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Sat Aug 30, 2008 at 18:17:27 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: A bigger problem at the kernel level is that the kernel APIs change constantly and have not infrequently had various GPL-only tags added that force OpenAFS into annoying workarounds (it is released under the IBM Public License,

transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
[Let's move this to debian-project since there is no debian-admin-public-bikeshedding. I hope mutt doesn't eat my Mail-Followup-To header.] On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote: I generally avoid using password authentication to Debian hosts, *except* in the particular case of scp'ing

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts (was: people.debian.org to move to ravel)

2008-08-30 Thread brian m. carlson
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 03:16:01PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: + once we have a krb realm we could maybe also use it for other stuff like all those web services that require logins. How good is krb

Re: transfering files between *.debian.org hosts

2008-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Bastian Blank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 02:32:08PM +0200, Peter Palfrader wrote: - AFS suffers from the not-a-filesystem syndrome: file access control is not unix-like and will confuse users. Also other parts are not really POSIX-like. Hardlinks or