>Yes it can be done without Kerberos and use X509 certificates
>and TLS. GSI implements a GSSAPI mechanism that uses X509
>certificates and TLS to authenticate. The gssklog program on the
>client uses the gssapi to authenticate to the gssklogd
running on
>the AFS database servers. The gssklogd returns an AFS token
to the >client.

>gssklog can be used with any GSSAPI SO if you have so other
>implementation it should work. It also works with Kerberos GSSAPI
>implementations such as MIT, Heimdal, SEAM and Microsoft SSPI.
>And it runs on Windows.

>So with AFS you don't need a kaserver, but still need the PTS
>or some replacement for it. The AFS token is still Kerberos,
but the
>user never sees this, only the gssklog program which passes
it off
>to the kernel.

>In effect the gssklogd is issuing AFS tokens which are in
effect >Kerberos
>tickets used internally by AFS only.


Thank you,
i will see ...
Have you see an implementation to use with ldap ...
because at ftp://achilles.ctd.anl.gov/pub/DEE/README.GSSKLOG ,
we can use kerberos but not ldap ...

thx in advance


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