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dan pritts ITD/LSA Partnership Unix Support [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 21 Aug 1995, Mitch Collinsworth wrote:
>
> Gang,
>
> I thought some of you might be interested in a brief report on using
> Xinet's K-AShare product to allow access to /afs from Macs.
>
> K-AShare is nominally an appleshare server for unix systems. It's
> currently available for IRIX, Solaris, SunOS, and HP-UX. It allows
> a unix server to make its filesystems available to Macs.
>
> The interesting thing about K-AShare is that it's server has a
> command-line option that will cause it to authenticate Mac users with
> AFS and generate a token. The latest version, 8.06, will test the
> username/password against AFS rather than /etc/passwd if started with
> this option. I wasn't quite happy with this because we have some Mac
> users who don't have AFS accounts, hence I preferred the login
> sequence of Transarc's login program:
>
> try AFS
> if success {
> login with token
> } else {
> try unix
> if success {
> login without token
> } else {
> error message
> }
> }
>
> Somewhat to my suprise, when I suggested Xinet make this change,
> they did! They sent me a test version and I'm quite happy with it.
> Presumably this change will ship with the next release. (Now if I
> could just convince Apple to allow more than 8 characters to be
> entered in the chooser's password field!)
>
> See http://www.xinet.com for sales info.
>
> -Mitch
>
