Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> wrote on 12/23/2009 08:45:25
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> Re: How to set up a common USER home directory across multiple zLinux
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> Shane Ginnane wrote:
> > Wasn't this what {Open}AFS was designed for ?.
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> Note that AFS requires kerberos.  It's not a bad place to be at, but is
> a complex pre-requisite.
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> Also AFS has different file permission semantics's than the 'normal'
> unix model.  Specifically an AFS acl applies to a directory and all
> files it contains, but never to an individual file.  This makes dirs
> that need a mix of private and public files (e.g. $HOME/.xauthority,
> $HOME/.ssh/*_key) tricky to implement.
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> I'd really like a system with AFS's namespaces, kerberos authentication,
> server redundancy, and client caching, but NFSv4's more unix like
> permisions model + ACL's.
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> - -- Pat
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Pat,

You'll probably find appendix B of this Redbook interesting:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg246657.html

A lot of the development groups inside IBM have slowly been migrating from
AFS to GSA for the last 5 years.  GSA has most of the things in your wish
list.

Regards,

Ray Higgs
System z FCP Development
Bld. 706, B24
2455 South Road
Poughkeepsie, NY 12601
(845) 435-8666,  T/L 295-8666
[email protected]

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