Re: [OpenAFS] calculating memory

2011-01-31 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 31 Jan 2011, Harald Barth wrote: I am in charge of several afs servers in our college. Right now there are 5 afs servers running on 5 SPARC based servers. We are ditching Solaris since it sucks so bad and are going to move to Linux VM's running inside of VMware. Before you do the

Re: [OpenAFS] Listing all volume mount points

2011-02-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Thomas Smith wrote: Hi, I am looking for a way to monitor quota usage in order to address quota or disk space issues before they become problems. Adding on to Thomas and Andrew's comments, it seems conventional at the sites I interact with, to have a small volume on

Re: [OpenAFS] Listing all volume mount points

2011-02-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Thomas Kula wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 07:28:14PM -0500, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: Adding on to Thomas and Andrew's comments, it seems conventional at the sites I interact with, to have a small volume on each fileserver partition that is mounted at /afs/cellname/service

Re: [OpenAFS] CellServDB

2011-03-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, James Durand wrote: Who does one contact to request a modification to the OpenAFS distributed CellServBD file? http://grand.central.org/csdb.html says mail cellser...@grand.central.org with the following information: * Cell Name * Description * Contact

Re: [OpenAFS] .dmrc file being ignored

2011-04-22 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Jaap Winius wrote: Quoting Stephan Wiesand stephan.wies...@desy.de: this works fine here on EL = 6 (EL6 has gdm-2.30). Debian squeeze has gdm 2.20. Are you suggesting that I'm dealing with a gdm bug or a Debian bug? I always liked it that gdm, unlike other *dm,

Re: [OpenAFS] Deploying OpenAFS on VMs

2011-06-17 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, omall...@msu.edu wrote: Quoting Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl: Quoting Coy Hile coy.h...@coyhile.com: I have a question about deployment of OpenAFS on VMWare. Assume for the sake of argument that one has a requirement to deploy OpenAFS on VMs -- to include deploying his

[OpenAFS] recommended UFS parameters for cache partition?

2011-12-26 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi all, Setting up a new solaris machine, I've gone and partitioned the disk, giving about 9GB to the cache partition. But now I need to put a (UFS) filesystem on it, and I wondered -- should I be tweaking the UFS parameters for the CM's workload? It seems like the filesystem's structure

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Best way to debug Lost contact with file server

2012-02-28 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Andrew Deason wrote: On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 02:51:48 -0800 Ken Elkabany k...@elkabany.com wrote: Off-email question: If a volume has N read replicas, how do clients choose which one to use? By default, it's effectively random. Technically the client also takes into account

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: sysname for 3.x linux kernel

2012-03-08 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012, Russ Allbery wrote: Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net writes: Secondly, this is easily modifiable by distributions. I think the closest thing Linux has to a platform like those of commercial unices (and maybe the BSDs) is a distribution-specific moniker. Just because

Re: [OpenAFS] Recommended options for dafs in openafs 1.6.1?

2012-04-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sat, 28 Apr 2012, Staffan Hämälä wrote: I'm in the process of upgrading one of our AFS servers to 1.6.1 (we've only run 1.4 before). I've been looking for information about recommended I believe we require that all of the *database* servers (not fileservers) in a cell be running the same

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Setting Up OpenAFS on FreeBSD

2012-06-26 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Andrew Deason wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 14:29:04 -0700 Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: I was able to get past this problem by using FreeBSD's Kerberos server. I was previously trying to integrate with our MIT Kerberos server, but that seems to be problematic.

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Setting Up OpenAFS on FreeBSD

2012-06-26 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012, Andrew Deason wrote: On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 18:34:03 -0400 (EDT) Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: should be in a /var/lib-like location. I am told that you will need to use pt_util to initialize a protection database as part of setting up a server. This should

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Setting Up OpenAFS on FreeBSD

2012-06-27 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Måns Nilsson wrote: Subject: [OpenAFS] Re: Setting Up OpenAFS on FreeBSD Date: Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 04:47:10PM -0500 Quoting Andrew Deason (adea...@sinenomine.net): I'm not sure if I've ever seen someone actually encounter that error before. Keep in mind it may be

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Setting Up OpenAFS on FreeBSD

2012-06-27 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Andrew Deason wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 09:46:24 -0700 Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: Is there anything in PtLog? Lots of this: ptserver: pt 11 (267275)pt 11 (267275)pt 11 (267275)pt 11 (267275)pt 11 (2pt11 (267275) Can't rebuild database because not running

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Setting Up OpenAFS on FreeBSD

2012-06-28 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Tim Gustafson t...@soe.ucsc.edu wrote: * The FreeBSD platform, having ZFS, is IMNSHO an excellent choice for a file server. How far ahead is the client code on FreeBSD? It works under light load, but I am pretty

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Setting Up OpenAFS on FreeBSD

2012-07-05 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Tim Gustafson wrote: I just sent off a (believed to be final) patch to get 1.6.1 in the freebsd ports collection this morning; it should hit the ports tree within a day or two. That sharball will not work for recent versions of freebsd, as it does not include the OS support

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Setting Up OpenAFS on FreeBSD

2012-07-06 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 10:56:19PM -0400, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Wed, 27 Jun 2012, Tim Gustafson wrote: I just sent off a (believed to be final) patch to get 1.6.1 in the freebsd ports collection this morning; it should hit the ports tree within

Re: [OpenAFS] buildbot and packages

2012-09-14 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Chaz Chandler wrote: no objection here, esp. if there's anyone out there with the spare time for and interest in testing them. Most distro/OSes have their own packaging system, and it would seem that life would be easier for such potential testers if they could install a

Re: [OpenAFS] buildbot and packages

2012-09-14 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 14 Sep 2012, Ken Dreyer wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 9:04 AM, Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: On Thu, 13 Sep 2012, Chaz Chandler wrote: Also, there is a question of what version number to put on snapshots so that they will sort properly between real releases. Ordinarily git

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and single DES

2012-10-05 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Jim Green wrote: Here at Michigan State, I'm leading a project to upgrade our MIT Kerberos system from 1.6.3 to 1.10.x. One thing we've discovered in our research is, in order for AFS to work, we need to turn on support for single DES in our Kerberos KDC. Short of either

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and single DES

2012-10-05 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Booker Bense wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: You can limit your exposure by having the afs/cell@realm principal be the only principal in the database with a single DES key. The default_enctypes do not need to include single-DES

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and single DES

2012-10-11 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Sorry for the delay; I forgot this was in my 'drafts' folder, still. On Mon, 8 Oct 2012, Booker Bense wrote: On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Jim Green jfgr...@msu.edu wrote: Thanks for the responses, this is very helpful. One question: are you saying that if our existing user principals

[OpenAFS] rxgk development has been funded

2012-10-23 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Dear all, I wanted to give a heads-up that MIT has funded me to work on implementing rxgk for OpenAFS. MIT is committed to AFS as part of our basic infrastructure, and we recognize that the current DES-based security class in OpenAFS is aging rapidly. Implementing the new GSSAPI-based rxgk

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] rxgk development has been funded

2012-10-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Jeff, On Tue, 23 Oct 2012, Jeffrey Altman wrote: Those of us with extensive IETF Security Area experience value the benefit of standards review performed via independent implementation. Your File System Inc. completed our implementation of rxgk along with all of the supporting infrastructure

Re: [OpenAFS] Cache partition choice still limited to ext2 on Linux?

2012-11-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Mittwoch 07 November 2012, 09:02:44 schrieb Marc Dionne: In my (limited) experience with memcache, it doesn't behave very well if the system is memory contrained and is under pressure. Hmm, I wouldn't call a system with 4G memory and not much

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: security of virtual web servers on afs

2012-12-12 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 12 Dec 2012, Andrew Deason wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2012 15:44:29 +0100 Michal Švamberg svamb...@gmail.com wrote: Is there some reasonable advice, how to separate virtual web servers on AFS from each others? In addition to what Stanford does, MIT does (or used to do) something somewhat

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and single DES

2012-12-18 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Replying to a rather old mail to note new developments... On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Fri, 5 Oct 2012, Booker Bense wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: You can limit your exposure by having the afs/cell@realm principal be the only

[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] Foundation Update 3

2013-02-16 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 15 Feb 2013, Roman Mitz wrote: I hope you find these descriptions helpful and get a good idea of what we have been dealing with and what has been accomplished. The Creation Committee continues to work diligently and in a most cooperative spirit, and we look forward to completing next

Re: [OpenAFS] compile problem w/ 1.6.2 on kernel 3.7.10-1.1 OpenSuSE 12.3 RC2

2013-03-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Ted Creedon wrote: OpenSuSE 12.3 RC2 kernel 3.7.10-1.1 ./configure --enable-transarc-paths --enable-namei-fileserver \ --with-linux-kernel-headers=/usr/src/linux --enable-supergroups \ --enable-bitmap-later compile_et.o: In function `main': compile_et.c:(.text+0x6ea):

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Is DAFS supported on FreeBSD?

2013-03-13 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 13 Mar 2013, Andrew Deason wrote: On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:47:09 +0100 Mark Huijgen m...@nl.simpc.com wrote: I was wondering if DAFS fileservers are supported on FreeBSD 9? It's supported in the sense that we'll try to fix bugs, and as far as I know it's not completely broken.

Re: [OpenAFS] enctypes supported by openafs 1.6.1?

2013-05-12 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sat, 11 May 2013, Anders Lennartsson wrote: What enctypes are actually supported by OpenAFS 1.6.1? I recently upgraded from 1.4 to 1.6.1 (in Debian Wheezy) by a new install. There are several computers: a Heimdal 1.6 kdc, a 1.6.1 afs service, and some Linux and Windows 7 clients. An afs

Re: [OpenAFS] getting (re)started on debian

2013-05-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 24 May 2013, Dave Cottlehuber wrote: I'm now on debian wheezy, with assorted macs and windows boxes about, and wondered if there are any good guides to getting started both with openafs especially with heimdal again - I assume it's still the preferred krb server? Stuff I've found so

Re: [OpenAFS] Problems Setting up new AFS cell in AWS

2013-06-18 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013, Victor Marmol wrote: afs-newcell fails when it tries to contact bos. The BosLog says: I seem to recall that that is a debian-specific script, which not everyone would be familiar with. From the little I found online there were some references to a NetInfo file, but I

Re: [OpenAFS] Token Lifetime

2013-06-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 25 Jun 2013, J wrote: Hi. Wondering if someone can help me with changing the default token lifetime of an identity, or the default for all identities. I read on the OpenAFS site that the default afs entry is 100 hours, the default krbtgt.cellname entry is 720 hours (30 days), and

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Token Lifetime

2013-06-26 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 26 Jun 2013, Andrew Deason wrote: I do question the value of having the Admin Guide on the website at all, if my understanding above is correct... I'm not sure how much information vs misinformation is tends to provide. I do agree that large swathes of it are useless or actively

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS Security Advisory 2013-0003

2013-07-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Douglas E. Engert wrote: Question: Once the 1.6.5 binaries are in place, and the servers start using the rxkad.keytab, will the server still accept existing DES based tokens that use keys and kvno that are only in the KeyFile? Yes. In fact, the code path for tokens using

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-announce] OpenAFS Security Advisory 2013-0003

2013-07-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Douglas E. Engert wrote: On 7/24/2013 11:10 AM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Wed, 24 Jul 2013, Douglas E. Engert wrote: Question: Once the 1.6.5 binaries are in place, and the servers start using the rxkad.keytab, will the server still accept existing DES based tokens

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS 1.7.26 windows and not changed AFS service principle - OK?

2013-07-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Andrew Deason wrote: On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 10:57:33 +0200 Lars Schimmer l.schim...@cgv.tugraz.at wrote: Maybe I am not the best reader, but if I do use a win AD as a krb5 auth service and I did not change anything with my keyfiles and everything, should OpenAFS 1.7.26 on

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS 1.7.26 windows and not changed AFS service principle - OK?

2013-07-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Andrew Deason wrote: On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:36:52 -0400 (EDT) Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: The short version is: a misconfigured KDC can cause problems for new clients against old servers. If that's true, we need to say specifically what that misconfiguration

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: OpenAFS 1.7.26 windows and not changed AFS service principle - OK?

2013-07-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
I think jhutz has covered most of the points already, but: On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Andrew Deason wrote: On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 11:36:52 -0400 (EDT) Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: and in the absence of other information, the KDC should not assume that a service supports an enctype for which

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Heimdal KDC bug mentioned in rekeying document

2013-07-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Sergio Gelato wrote: I've been poking a bit into this. First of all, let's make sure I don't misunderstand your expectation here: do you want the KDC to be willing to issue a ticket with a des-cbc-crc session key (as requested by old aklog) even though the afs service

Re: [OpenAFS] More questions about the re-keying document

2013-07-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, step...@physics.unc.edu wrote: In going over the re-keying document, a few more questions popped into my mind that weren't clear from my reading of the document. In the Basic procedure for MIT, it mentions ensuring that DES should not be one of the encryption types in

Re: [OpenAFS] More questions about the re-keying document

2013-07-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 25 Jul 2013, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: There's another MIT-specific reason to not include a DES key in the rxkad.keytab, namely that the MIT KDC does not set requires_preauth on new principals by default. This means that if there's a DES key in the KDB, an unauthenticated attacker can

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: More questions about the re-keying document

2013-07-26 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013, Andrew Deason wrote: On Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:12:54 -0400 (EDT) Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: In going over the re-keying document, a few more questions popped into my mind that weren't clear from my reading of the document. In the Basic procedure for MIT

Re: [OpenAFS] KdcUseReqEtype changed another problem occured...

2013-07-28 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013, Jeffrey Altman wrote: On 7/27/2013 7:53 AM, Lars Schimmer wrote: BUT on my laptop I get now this error: PS C:\Program Files (x86)\MIT\Kerberos\bin kinit lschimmer Password for lschim...@cgv.tugraz.at: kinit.exe(v5): Ccache function not supported: read-only ccache type

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing stuff from /afs

2013-07-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Jaap Winius wrote: Hi folks, Could someone please remind me how to remove stuff from the /afs directory? I recently discovered an empty directory there, called: /afs/.:mount Obviously it was created there by accident, probably by me. However, when I try to remove it I

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Heimdal KDC bug mentioned in rekeying document

2013-07-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Jeffrey Altman wrote: This is an incorrect description. The explicit problem occurs when the following combination is true: 1. user has one or more strong enctype keys with non-default password salts 2. the only keys with default password salts are weak enctypes 3.

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: MIT Kerberos des session key

2013-07-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Andrew is spot-on, just two minor clarifications (inline) On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Andrew Deason wrote: On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 14:39:56 -0400 John Sopko so...@cs.unc.edu wrote: Where is the session key for the afs/cell@REALM service principal derived from? Session keys aren't usually derived from

Re: [OpenAFS] building swig based interfaces

2013-09-01 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Sun, 1 Sep 2013, Gémes Géza wrote: Hi, I've decided to start a project for building a swig based python interface for afs commands/functions. The advantage is that a swig interface can be further used for creating interfaces for other languages. Currently I know about only one limited

Re: [OpenAFS] Where is krb_afslog_uid?

2013-09-01 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 2 Sep 2013, shuaijie wang wrote: In linux man page, I found that there are a bunch of krb-wrapped afs functions, like: *k_hasafs*, *k_pioctl*, *k_unlog*, *k_setpag*, *k_afs_cell_of_file*, * krb_afslog*, *krb_afslog_uid * But after I've installed openafs, I only found k_hasafs,

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: afs/cell transition procedure

2013-09-12 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Andrew Deason wrote: While I was aware this was at least a theoretical possibility, I could not remember any actual systems you can run an openafs server on that supported non-des krb that didn't support all of the common enctypes (aes256, aes128, des3, and rc4). If that's

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Naming of backup and up commands

2013-09-23 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Russ Allbery wrote: Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net writes: Either way, sure, makes sense to me. But the people that actually use those commands really do need to say something, even if it's just yes, sounds good. Yes, indeed. We use the backup suite here at

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Moving Magic Trio to another domain

2013-09-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
I was out sick yesterday, sorry I missed all the excitement. On Mon, 23 Sep 2013, Andrew Deason wrote: On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:08:35 +0300 (EEST) Jukka Tuominen jukka.tuomi...@finndesign.fi wrote: For Kerberos, if you're using about MIT or Heimdal, this may be difficult, since usually the

Re: [OpenAFS] Update squeeze openafs-fileserver to squeeze-backports

2013-10-03 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Jean-Marc Choulet wrote: Hello, We want to upgrade openafs-fileserver to squeeze-backports and we get this errors : LANG=C apt-get -t squeeze-backports install openafs-client Sorry, are you upgrading the fileserver package or the client package? The subject and body

Re: [OpenAFS] Update squeeze openafs-fileserver to squeeze-backports

2013-10-03 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Jean-Marc Choulet wrote: Le 03/10/2013 17:28, Benjamin Kaduk a écrit : On Thu, 3 Oct 2013, Jean-Marc Choulet wrote: Hello, We want to upgrade openafs-fileserver to squeeze-backports and we get this errors : LANG=C apt-get -t squeeze-backports install openafs-client

Re: [OpenAFS] System hangs, OSX 10.6.8, OpenAFS 1.6.5

2013-11-29 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, dorian taylor wrote: Hello List, I'm trying to diagnose a persistent problem since I upgraded an old Mac from 10.5 to 10.6 and installed the latest OpenAFS. The exact number will be much more ueseful than just saying the latest OpenAFS. Essentially what happens is

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS with future Linux kernel 3.13

2013-12-11 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: Is anyone using OpenAFS with the future Linux kernel 3.13? I need to use kernel 3.13.0-rc1 and 3.13.0-rc2 with OpenAFS for a OpenAFS fileserver, but I get compile errors: (...) CC [M]

Re: [OpenAFS] kimpersonate library

2014-01-14 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, Craig Huckabee wrote: I'm in the process of converting our small cell over to rxkad-k5 and eliminating DES but have hit a snag. We have a library of utility functions based on old code from aklog and gssklogd that give certain trusted applications the ability to

Re: [OpenAFS] 'afs/' principal rekeying instructions may be incomplete

2014-01-23 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi Peter, On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Peter Grandi wrote: I was reviewing in great detail the 'rxkad-{k5,kdf}' upgrade instructions and in particular the rekeying HOWTO: http://www.openafs.org/pages/security/how-to-rekey.txt I wrote the majority of both this document and the 'retiring des'

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: 'afs/' principal rekeying instructions may be incomplete

2014-01-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Sorry for the delayed response. It looks like Jeffrey's and Andrew's responses should have addressed the major issues. It would also be a little easier for me if the attribution of who wrote the quoted text was retained. On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Peter Grandi wrote: ** Crucial details for

Re: [OpenAFS] Minimal toy OpenAFS install?

2014-02-15 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014, Ken Dreyer wrote: On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:59 PM, fork forkandw...@gmail.com wrote: I figure I would install Kerberos and OpenAFS, but I am hoping to avoid BIND if I can. I thought I would install the Kerberos key server on the same machine as OpenAFS, since it is a toy

Re: [OpenAFS] rxk: authentication expired

2014-03-14 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 14 Mar 2014, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 13:39 -0400, Timothy Balcer wrote: I realize I can delete and add back the replica, and retry the release, however I am concerned about the error. How is it that an authentication can expire when the client is automatically

Re: [OpenAFS] Compiling 1.6.5.2 and 1.6.6 end in compilation failure for OpenAFS.prefPane

2014-03-24 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi Frederick, On Mon, 24 Mar 2014, Frederick Luehring wrote: Hi Everyone, I am running Mac Mavericks version 10.9.2. Over the December holiday break, I was able to build and install OpenAFS 1.6.5.2 so AFS was working on Mavericks. Since then I installed 1.6.6 from the

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Pre-built packages: build options?

2014-04-09 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Andrew Deason wrote: On Wed, 09 Apr 2014 10:47:39 -0400 Jeff Blaine jbla...@kickflop.net wrote: First, thank you very much for those who donate time and/or resources to provide builds of OpenAFS. How does one determine how these packages were built? What configure args?

Re: [OpenAFS] Buffer overflow on Mac OS X 10.9.2 Mavericks

2014-04-22 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
I think we had to change this code when bringing up the Mavericks buildslave. (http://gerrit.openafs.org/#change,10731) So, it should be fixed for the next release already; the only question is whether there would be security implications. -Ben On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, D Brashear wrote: data

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS and windows/unix versioning

2014-05-07 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 7 May 2014, Dave B. wrote: One of our main thoughts is that the version numbers should be indicative of client/server compatibility. clients and servers communicate via the AFS-3 network protocol; new features (RPCs) are added to that protocol in a backwards-compatible manner. The

Re: [OpenAFS] rx failed to send packet

2014-05-27 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 27 May 2014, Stephen Joyce wrote: Hello, I have a server which runs several scripts with AFS tokens. These scripts often manipulate PTS users and groups and less-often perform volume operations. For the past ~week, I occasionally see in the output the following message. rx failed

[OpenAFS] wiki.openafs.org web editing reenabled

2014-05-28 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
Hi all, When wiki.openafs.org (along with git.openafs.org and gerrit.openafs.org) was migrated to new server hardware, the ability to edit the wiki over the web was disabled, due to the unavailability of some perl modules on the new system. Thanks to the packaging efforts of Ken Dreyer, we

Re: [OpenAFS] asetkey question

2014-07-02 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Jean-Marc Choulet wrote: Hello, Is it possible to change my cell key on all my afs servers. I made a mistake. I changed the key value with ktadd without -norandkey Now, I have problem with my AFS filesystem : root@afs1:~# LANG=C ls /afs//users/bjaille2/ ls: cannot

Re: [OpenAFS] asetkey question

2014-07-02 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Jean-Marc Choulet wrote: We use OpenAFS 1.6.1 on our servers (Debian Wheezy). I think it is not possible to use rxkad-k5 and rxkad-kdf extensions ? openafs 1.6.1-3+deb7u1 in wheezy-security received the patches for OPENAFS-SA-2013-003, which allow the use of rxkad-k5 and

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Two realms and one cell

2014-07-03 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 3 Jul 2014, Andrew Deason wrote: be in the rxkad.keytab/KeyFile files on your servers. If I recall correctly, if you're using the single-DES KeyFile, those two principals need to be using different kvnos, but I don't think there's any such restriction when using rxkad.keytab. That is

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Can't start afsd

2014-07-04 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 4 Jul 2014, Jean-Marc Choulet wrote: That works fine if I use : # /sbin/afsd -verbose ... but not with /etc/init.d/openafs-client Le 04/07/2014 22:48, Jean-Marc Choulet a écrit : Hello, I have a problem when I try to start afsd : root@afs-db01:~# /etc/init.d/openafs-client start

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: additional OpenAFS 1.6.9 binaries available

2014-07-06 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
[Sorry for delayed response; I was travelling.] On Thu, 26 Jun 2014, Andrew Deason wrote: The *BSDs have their ports, and we are using that for FreeBSD. I'm honestly not sure why we are not relying on that for binaries. We can get somewhat faster availability of binaries by providing our

Re: [OpenAFS] Cross-realm access

2014-07-21 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Jaap Winius wrote: Hi folks, After setting up Kerberos cross-realm access and then creating a system:authuser@MY_REALM group in a foreign cell, it seems that basic rl access to the cell's contents is only possible after that group is given rl access to every single

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Cross-realm access

2014-07-21 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Andrew Deason wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:16:50 +0200 Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl wrote: Is there an easy way around this, like something equivalent to making system:authuser@MY_REALM a member of system:authuser? No, but you might add system:authuser and

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.9 and AES tickets

2014-07-31 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Martin Richter wrote: Hello, since I wasn't able to find out now is there any official stantement whether or when more secure kerberos tickets (like AES) will be supported? DES isn't the best choice and anything I've found was dated back years ago. Thanks in advance for

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.9 and AES tickets

2014-07-31 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Jeffrey Altman wrote: On 7/31/2014 10:18 AM, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 16:12 +0200, Martin Richter wrote: So this means that client caching can't be used anymore after DES has been removed from the KDC? No; rxkad-kdf derives a DES key from a stronger

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Authentication without aklog

2014-07-31 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Brandon Allbery wrote: For what it's worth, I am seeing more people move to (or start with) NFSv4 and then run into the restrictions imposed by rpc.gssd and become frustrated. This seems to be educational as to why OpenAFS uses tokens. I find it interesting that we are

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Authentication without aklog

2014-08-01 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Andrew Deason wrote: To me, this represents a big dificulty for a project as cross-platform as OpenAFS; it would probably require dedicated effort per-platform, so we would likely end up in a fragmented state for some (long) period of time. Any discussion about

Re: [OpenAFS] Authentication without aklog

2014-08-01 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 1 Aug 2014, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: The problem with AFS seems to be everyone who knows you need to 'kinit ; aklog' and it's been so long we have all forgotten the experience of what it was like before we realized this. Hmm, it is interesting that we don't seem to have heard from any

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Authentication without aklog

2014-08-05 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 09:34 -0500, Douglas E Engert wrote: A side question is can AFS use some other authentication method other then Kerberos? Not yet. This is one of the things rxgk is supposed to address; we can then use any GSSAPI-provided

Re: [OpenAFS] bos removeuser and vos dump -clone questions

2014-08-25 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, GALAMBOS Daniel wrote: Hi, Under debian 7 bos removeuser causes the bosserver to abort with coredump. The cause is realpath requires that resolved_path is either to be NULL or be more-or-equal to PATH_MAX, but both could have portability problems according to the man

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: AFS Perl Modules and Ubuntu

2014-09-05 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
I have a vague recollection that the AFS perl modules only worked with openafs 1.4, but have nothing to support that at hand. Maybe someone else has a better memory than me... -Ben ___ OpenAFS-info mailing list OpenAFS-info@openafs.org

Re: [OpenAFS] mixing openafs 1.4 pt/vl servers with openafs 1.6 dafs file servers?

2014-09-12 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, D'Amato, Tony wrote: We're currently running our OpenAFS 1.4 cell on a single set of servers. We're preparing to migrate file services from those machines onto a new set of machines, then later migrate the database services to a different set of machines. Since these

Re: [OpenAFS] Trouble creating AFS KeyFile on FreeBSD 10.0

2014-09-17 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Eric Shell wrote: I tried to install security/heimdal port but it appears to have a conflict with the net/openafs port in FreeBSD 10.0: === Registering installation for heimdal-1.5.2_16 pkg-static: heimdal-1.5.2_16 conflicts with openafs-1.6.7.20130128 (installs

Re: [OpenAFS] Trouble creating AFS KeyFile on FreeBSD 10.0

2014-09-17 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Wed, 17 Sep 2014, Eric Shell wrote: I tried to install security/heimdal port but it appears to have a conflict with the net/openafs port in FreeBSD 10.0: === Registering installation for heimdal-1.5.2_16 pkg-static: heimdal-1.5.2_16

Re: [OpenAFS] k5start and AFS tokens

2014-09-26 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Jaap Winius wrote: On 26/09/14 19:34, Brandon Allbery wrote: This is because, if you specify a command, it runs that command and then cleans up and exits. It's specifically intended to run a long-running command or daemon while maintaining Kerberos tickets and

Re: [OpenAFS] k5start and AFS tokens

2014-09-26 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Jaap Winius wrote: Quoting Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu: Passing -t tells k5start to literally run 'aklog' (unless AKLOG is set in the environment), not /path/to/long-running-command, when it gets tickets. Well, that's all I want it to do, in addition to keeping

Re: [OpenAFS] k5start and AFS tokens

2014-09-26 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014, Jaap Winius wrote: Quoting Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu: The k5start mindset is to avoid having to have a separate periodic process that prepares tickets/tokens for some independent process to consume -- instead, the process consuming the tickets/tokens is a child

Re: [OpenAFS] pts max user id is 2147483647

2014-09-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Dan Van Der Ster wrote: Hi all, Today when I attempt to create an IP user I get a DB inconsistent error: # pts createuser 188.184.140.136 pts: database is inconsistent ; unable to create user 188.184.140.136 Then I noticed that our max user id is currently 2^31-1: #

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Trouble creating AFS KeyFile on FreeBSD 10.0

2014-10-01 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Eric Shell wrote: That seems a little odd; is it only ptserver that fails? Try these, to check each individual server: bosserver: bos status server -localauth vlserver: vos listaddrs -noresolv -localauth ptserver: pts listmax -localauth buserver: backup

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Trouble creating AFS KeyFile on FreeBSD 10.0

2014-10-02 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 1 Oct 2014, Eric Shell wrote: So, it seems like no authentication is working yet. If I remember correctly from previous mail, your cell name is the same as your realm name, so you shouldn't need a krb.conf to make that mapping (that's a common cause for this sort of behavior).

Re: [OpenAFS] any experiences with OpenAFS client on the upcoming MacOS 10.10 (yosemite) release?

2014-10-20 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Mattias Pantzare wrote: I have tried to compile 1.6.10 on OS X 10.10. The first problem is that it will not compile with xcode 5 or 6. I have not checked if there is a way to change the compiler to gcc on xcode 6, so it might be possible (the command gcc starts c-lang).

Re: [OpenAFS] any experiences with OpenAFS client on the upcoming MacOS 10.10 (yosemite) release?

2014-10-22 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Wed, 22 Oct 2014, Jan Pospíšil wrote: Is there a way one can force the default kerberos in Yosemite to allow-weak-crypto? Or do I have to install for example the MIT or Heimdal kerboeros separately as a workaround before our keys will be upgraded to a different encryption type (may take

Re: [OpenAFS] Providing signed packages (was Re: any experiences with OpenAFS client ...)

2014-10-23 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Garrett Wollman wrote: Official FreeBSD packages are built from the ports collection on a weekly basis, but the OpenAFS port cannot be built because the FreeBSD package builders do not have the necessary kernel compile tree available. It might be possible to make this

Re: [OpenAFS] any experiences with OpenAFS client on the upcoming MacOS 10.10 (yosemite) release?

2014-10-27 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Dave Botsch wrote: I can request it on our account, but I need a *clear* explanation, for Apple, of ... what your kernel extension does and why your customers are required to install it. If someone who knows the internals better than I can provide this text, that'd be

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Minor question on moving AFS db servers

2014-10-30 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 30 Oct 2014, Harald Barth wrote: I just mention this because I don't think there's any way to avoid this one. Other userspace clients will not notice because they are short-lived processes, but anything that's long running, we don't have a way to notify of CellServDB changes.

[OpenAFS] IRIX support/documentation

2014-11-03 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
(Replying to this old thread, which was Re: [OpenAFS] Re: HP-UX support) On Mon, 3 Feb 2014, Andrew Deason wrote: On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 14:32:59 -0500 chas williams - CONTRACTOR c...@cmf.nrl.navy.mil wrote: On this note, as of 2013 December, IRIX is no longer a supported product. Can IRIX

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: IRIX support/documentation

2014-11-04 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Mon, 3 Nov 2014, Andrew Deason wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2014 19:17:33 -0500 (EST) Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: I don't mind keeping the IRIX code around while we have a buildbot running for it, but I do wonder if we can start trimming IRIX-specific bits from our documentation

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.5/1.6.10 - server segfaults during migration to rxkad-k5

2014-11-06 Thread Benjamin Kaduk
On Thu, 6 Nov 2014, chas williams - CONTRACTOR wrote: On Thu, 06 Nov 2014 13:56:56 +0100 Volkmar Glauche volkmar.glau...@uniklinik-freiburg.de wrote: strace of a starting server process shows that the old KeyFile and the rxkad.keytab file are read. The segfault occurs right after closing

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