RE: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.20.1 on AIX 7.1

2017-02-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
You can't sensibly virtualize IBM POWER / PowerPC architecture on Intel CPUs. (Or even "at all"; I think the closest you get is qemu's PrEP which will not boot AIX.) -Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Ted Creedon

RE: [OpenAFS] openafs can not delete file

2016-06-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
] On Behalf Of zhaoxy...@ustc.edu.cn Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 4:57 AM To: Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> Cc: Brandon Allbery <ballb...@sinenomine.net>; openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: [OpenAFS] openafs can not delete file hi, the openafs has been successfully installed ,but i have met s

RE: Re: Re: RE: [OpenAFS] ad+openafs

2016-05-09 Thread Brandon Allbery
To: Benjamin Kaduk <ka...@mit.edu> Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org; Brandon Allbery <ballb...@sinenomine.net> Subject: Re: Re: Re: RE: [OpenAFS] ad+openafs hi, sorry,i need to add something . i have three servers. ad +kerberos win2008 nis server openafs server linux redhat 6.

RE: [OpenAFS] /var/cache/openafs on btrfs

2016-05-04 Thread Brandon Allbery
ZFS requires specific tuning for use as a cache partition; otherwise, its allocation size interacts poorly with the allocation size of cache chunks, IIRC. I'd imagine something similar is true of btrfs, but I know even less about btrfs implementation details than ZFS. -Original

RE: [OpenAFS] AFS in the age of the wild west internet

2016-05-03 Thread Brandon Allbery
fs sa /path/to/whatever system:anyuser none -Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Steve Gaarder Sent: Friday, March 4, 2016 10:05 AM To: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: [OpenAFS] AFS in the age of the wild west

RE: [OpenAFS] ad+openafs

2016-05-03 Thread Brandon Allbery
-1765328370 is KRB5KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP. This often means that DES is disabled somewhere. Note that the client library *also* needs DES enabled; you might need to add to the [libdefaults] section of /etc/krb5.conf on the RH system, allow_weak_crypto = true From:

RE: [OpenAFS] Stuck in Quick start guide at "fs: You don't have the required access rights on '/afs'"

2016-03-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
That documentation sounds out of date, or possibly just incomplete. When dynroot is enabled, /afs is virtual and you cannot set the ACL. When the client is using an actual root.afs volume, the command you gave will only work before a read-only replica has been created and released (vos addsite

RE: [OpenAFS] ubik_Call returns 363546 suddenly

2016-03-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
Did you upgrade the servers recently? Wildcards were disabled from 1.6.13 on due to a buffer overflow vulnerability; see https://www.openafs.org/security/OPENAFS-SA-2015-006.txt for details. -Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org]

RE: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version 4.4.0-1-default

2016-03-02 Thread Brandon Allbery
Not until someone adds pioctl support to it. -Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org] On Behalf Of Ted Creedon Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 10:13 AM Cc: openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] compile fails kernel version

RE: [OpenAFS] Odd error on 'vos move'

2015-12-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
That looks like pretty much textbook token expiration in mid-volume copy, yes. You will need to "vos unlock" the original volume and possibly "vos endtrans" on the server (warning, this ends *all* active transactions! Might be better to wait 10-15 minutes for it to time out). It shouldn't be

Re: [OpenAFS] make fails on linux 4.3.0-1

2015-11-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 11/14/2015 03:11 PM, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > Thanks to Mike for doing this. http://gerrit.openafs.org/#change,12095 was > merged and will thus be part of 1.6.16pre1. It is sad though that we > sacrifice scout(1) and afsmonitor(1) this way, rather than fix gtx. Amy > volunteers? Turns out

Re: [OpenAFS] make fails on linux 4.3.0-1

2015-11-13 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 11/13/2015 12:01 PM, Ted Creedon wrote: > make[3]: Entering directory '/data/openafs-1.6.15/src/gtx' > gcc -fPIC -O -I/data/openafs-1.6.15/src/config > -I/data/openafs-1.6.15/include -I. -I. -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -c > curseswindows.c > curseswindows.c: In function

Re: [OpenAFS] windows client and git

2015-11-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 11/11/2015 01:25 PM, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: > Fundamentally, we wnat to know what code-level operation is failing. A > quick search does not seem to find any universal ways to do so (akin to a > linux ltrace or strace), but perhaps the logger functionality in > WinDbg.exe would suffice.

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux find command inconsistent

2015-09-15 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, 2015-09-15 at 18:04 +, Stephan Wiesand wrote: > OpenAFS releases since 1.6.10 include the volscan(8) utility. It will not be > quite as trivial to use for your purposes since you need to run it on volumes > and stitch paths as seen by clients together yourself, but for just that >

Re: [OpenAFS] Relocating to new machine

2015-08-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, 2015-08-11 at 13:20 +0200, Youssef Eldakar wrote: 1. Install openafs-dbserver and openafs-fileserver on new machine. 2. Configure new machine as 'secondary site' for the OpenAFS admin databases with the 'synchronization site' being the old machine. 3. Set the new machine as the

Re: [OpenAFS] kmod rpm versions?

2015-08-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2015-08-07 at 09:04 -0500, John Hascall wrote: I installed a new RHEL6 box and the kernel version is: 2.6.32-573.el6.x86_64 Prebuilt kernel modules aren't always available. If you install dkms-openafs instead of a kmod-openafs then the system will (try to) rebuild the kernel module

Re: [OpenAFS] Issue with error 17 on debian 1.6.13 filserver

2015-08-03 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, 2015-08-03 at 15:53 +0200, Lars Schimmer wrote: Do we have a issue here? Do I misread the information fsck gave me? Am I out of iNodes? I guess not, but why do I get the error 17 ? If that's an OS error code, it's EEXIST (File exists). This would not relate to the actual file created; a

Re: [OpenAFS] What you need to know about Windows 10

2015-07-29 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 01:12 -0600, Antoine Verheijen wrote: What guarantee(s) is the certifier prepared to live up to via their certification? If none, why is it required? It is a point... Apple is apparently willing to let anyone request a kext signing certificate, whereas Microsoft requires

Re: [OpenAFS] afsd: Error calling AFSOP_CACHEINODE: not configured

2015-07-02 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 15:42 +0200, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: fs la /afs/ fs: Invalid argument; it is possible that /afs/ is not in AFS. fs mkmount /afs/cellname root.cell fs: mount points must be created within the AFS file system If you're using dynroot, /afs is indeed not in AFS (it's a fake

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS still in development?

2015-06-22 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, 2015-06-22 at 10:12 -0400, Daria Brashear wrote: On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Ted Creedon tcree...@easystreet.net wrote: EG OSX has a memory leak that requires weekly rebooting (per apple support) Details? Cuz uh, I'm not rebooting weekly and... I've been

Re: [OpenAFS] Any preference for RHEL file servers

2015-04-06 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 14:36 +, Kieffer, Catherine wrote: I just downloaded and installed the openafs-1.6.11-1.src.rpm source RPM. It didn't put it into /usr/src but into /root/rpmbuild. I tried running the openafs-buildall.sh and received this. rpmbuild -ba

Re: [OpenAFS] Any preference for RHEL file servers

2015-04-06 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 14:43 +, Brandon Allbery wrote: rpmbuild -ba /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/openafs.spec I should also mention that it is entirely possible that RH has backported a kernel that's too new for the latest release. You can look for prereleases (probably not available in .src.rpm form

Re: [OpenAFS] Max number of groups owned by user

2015-03-24 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 15:46 +0100, Staffan Hämälä wrote: $ pts creategroup sh:test20 pts: may not create more groups ; unable to create group sh:test20 Where can I find info about this limit? vikktakkht:1134 Z$ pts ex ballbery Name: ballbery, id: 2509, owner: system:administrators,

Re: [OpenAFS] Encrypted connections by default in OpenAFS 1.8?

2015-03-02 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, 2015-03-02 at 23:13 +0200, Jukka Tuominen wrote: What if OpenAFS would be known to be safe? I agree that there would be a high market value for that. There is ongoing work on this. It's not trivial. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates

Re: [OpenAFS] Migrating existing data onto vice partition on the fly

2014-12-30 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 17:08 +0100, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: This data has to be migrated within the same server to AFS. Why same server? An AFS setup usually consists of several servers, especially if you want to serve terabytes of data. Not to mention the needed kerberos server.

Re: [OpenAFS] Export nfs file system with afs

2014-12-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2014-12-11 at 14:37 +0100, Voss wrote: I set up an afs-server this morning, it works well. The initial goal I had was exporting our /home directory with afs, it is, however, an nfs file system. Is there any possibility to export these directories using afs, without changes to the

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS + CrossRealm + FreeIPA + Migration

2014-11-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 11:41 +0100, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: Kerberos error code returned by get_cred : -1765328370 KRB5KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP You are probably still using DES, and need allow_weak_crypto = true in [libdefaults] on clients and the KDC. An answer for the future (and possibly necessary

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS + CrossRealm + FreeIPA + Migration

2014-11-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 15:42 +0100, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: Am 07.11.2014 um 14:46 schrieb Brandon Allbery: On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 11:41 +0100, Andreas Ladanyi wrote: Kerberos error code returned by get_cred : -1765328370 KRB5KDC_ERR_ETYPE_NOSUPP You are probably still using DES, and need

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

2014-11-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-11-07 at 11:15 -0600, Andrew Deason wrote: It seems likely the 0 kvno is the problem. We only copy in a principal if the kvno in the keytab is greater than 'vno' in akimpersonate.c:pick_principal, which starts out at 0. I assume that's valid and we just hadn't encountered this

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

2014-10-29 Thread Brandon Allbery
So, an interesting and undoubtedly temporary workaround for unsigned kexts on Yosemite/OS X 10.10 is that they can apparently be loaded by LaunchDaemons. http://dan.langille.org/2014/10/28/getting-openconnect-tuntap-working-on-yosemite-osx/ It wouldn't surprise me if Apple closed that loophole

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

2014-10-24 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-10-24 at 09:06 -0400, D Brashear wrote: It's worth noting, OSXFUSE is signed. Only if you get the prebuilt one from their distribution. Ports systems (MacPorts, Homebrew, FreeBSD ports, Gentoo portage, etc. --- of course only the first two are relevant here) build from source and

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

2014-10-23 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2014-10-23 at 20:37 -0500, Andrew Deason wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 18:27:27 -0400 Stephen Joyce step...@email.unc.edu wrote: In any case, OpenAFS is not the only project which must decide how to move forward in this scenario. It might be instructive to see how macports,

Re: [OpenAFS] k5start and AFS tokens

2014-09-26 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 19:27 +0200, Jaap Winius wrote: The -t option seems to do nothing for me, while any command option placed at the end of the statement only causes another problem that makes init disable the process after respawning too quickly. This is because, if you specify a

Re: [OpenAFS] k5start and AFS tokens

2014-09-26 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-09-26 at 22:29 +0200, Jaap Winius wrote: So, I was getting into trouble because aklog is not a long-running command? Anyway, the daemon in question doesn't understand Kerberos or AFS; I'm just trying to give an average daemon access to some files in AFS. That is *exactly*

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

2014-09-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 10:42 -0700, Eric Shell wrote: When I run ktutil copy /tmp/afsv5key AFSKEYFILE:/tmp/KeyFile the /tmp/KeyFile file is not created. If I run it with truss I see a bunch of lines complaining about missing files. 99% of those are not relevant and are just looking for shared

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

2014-09-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
whoops, sorry, freebsd. My freebsd 10-R seems to understand AFSKEYFILE but I don't have admin access to a KDC at the moment that I can use for testing. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com

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

2014-09-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 2014-09-17 at 10:42 -0700, Eric Shell wrote: I'm following the AFS server set up steps at https://wiki.freebsd.org/afs-server but I'm stuck at the ktutil copy command to create the AFS KeyFile. I set up a test realm and partially set up a cell on a 10.0-R VM. It looks like this is a

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

2014-09-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2014-09-11 at 14:28 -0400, Phillip Moore wrote: What my modules do NOT have are things like setpag(). If I ever get back into working on OpenAFS again (probability totally indeterminate), the first time I need setpag(), I will code up a standalone perl module that provides that,

Re: [OpenAFS] Red Hat RPM packaging

2014-09-03 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 12:40 -0400, Dave Botsch wrote: EPEL is really good about making sure that they don't override base redhat packages and that packages in the repo don't brake w.r.t. dependencies. As has been pointed out, EPEL is no-go; they require all kernel modules to come from the

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Samba aklog

2014-08-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 23:29 -0500, Andrew Deason wrote: However, even if that is working, I would think that setup would only work if samba uses separate processes for connections for different users; I don't know if that's true. You could ask samba for more info It does; otherwise it'd need

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Samba aklog

2014-08-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 11:09 -0400, John P Janosik wrote: On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 23:29 -0500, Andrew Deason wrote: However, even if that is working, I would think that setup would only work if samba uses separate processes for connections for different users; I don't know if that's

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: client behind NAT firewall

2014-08-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2014-08-07 at 12:46 -0500, Andrew Deason wrote: On Wed, 06 Aug 2014 15:33:02 -0400 Dale Pontius pont...@btv.ibm.com wrote: Obviously this was client side, but I find it hard to believe that keeping a connection mapped for the 2 hours mentioned elsewhere would be necessary.

Re: [OpenAFS] freezes acessing /afs/.git

2014-08-06 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 15:32 +0200, Markus Koeberl wrote: What exactly may be the problem with -afsdb. Are my SRV records wrong or is there a problem with my name server? I am happy for any hints because removing the -afsdb option is complicated... I'm seeing this problem locally in a

Re: [OpenAFS] freezes acessing /afs/.git

2014-08-06 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 13:47 +, Brandon Allbery wrote: I'm not sure how to mitigate this, though. Even if you could add a dummy AFSDB or SRV record to intercept this lookup, Actually, for your case it might be sufficient to add an entry to the CellAlias file pointing .git to the local cell

Re: [OpenAFS] freezes acessing /afs/.git

2014-08-06 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 2014-08-06 at 13:47 +, Brandon Allbery wrote: read-write root.afs volume SIgh, thinko, was thinking about having to verify my default cell's root.afs is sane before I kill -dynroot locally while I was composing that. It's looking up root.cell, of course. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh

Re: [OpenAFS] client behind NAT firewall

2014-08-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 09:30 +0200, Alex wrote: Now, I didn't find in the admin guide or wiki[1] some useful information about client's firewall, but I could find some information on the Internet saying that client doesn't work without opening 7001 for incoming UDP [2]. This should be open for

Re: [OpenAFS] client behind NAT firewall

2014-08-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 16:12 +0200, Alex wrote: Parallel access is a must for us.The main concern is the possibility that one client overwrites modifications of another one who is editing the file in the same time. This is going to bite you if you don't have callbacks working. -- brandon s

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Authentication without aklog

2014-08-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
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 service. (The Globus stuff included a minimal

Re: [OpenAFS] client behind NAT firewall

2014-08-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 16:08 +0100, Simon Wilkinson wrote: The complication is that firewalls/NATs only preserve these mappings for a finite length of time. We attempt to keep them open through regular fileserver pings, but sometimes that isn't enough. When a mapping expires, the client is

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: client behind NAT firewall

2014-08-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 10:36 -0500, Andrew Deason wrote: On Tue, 05 Aug 2014 16:12:41 +0200 Alex euergetiko...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/05/14 15:08, Brandon Allbery wrote: So you might be able to get by with just running fs checkvolumes periodically in a cron job to make up for missing

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Authentication without aklog

2014-08-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 10:55 -0400, Dave Botsch wrote: Could AFS work like other Kerberos apps with more direct use of kerberos tickets and just getting the service ticket when needed, versus having to do something extra (ie aklog)? Dunno. Would be nice, but not required, IMHO, as long as the

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Authentication without aklog

2014-08-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 11:32 -0400, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote: We can do a userspace upcall on any platform; that's not the hard part... Yes, but it's mostly useless since it doesn't preserve any existing security context. Unless your kinit puts the tickets in a well known (and

Re: [OpenAFS] Authentication without aklog

2014-08-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-08-01 at 17:35 -0500, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: So why don't we use the kernel keyring on Linux, and the built-in OS support on both MacOS and Windows for Kerberos to grab the key that matches the default realm? If you have weird situations, or where administrators feel they must

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.9 and AES tickets

2014-07-31 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 15:32 +0200, Martin Richter wrote: for any reason I just missed the three documents Thanks a lot! On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 09:09:11 -0400 (EDT) Benjamin Kaduk ka...@mit.edu wrote: On Thu, 31 Jul 2014, Martin Richter wrote: since I

Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS 1.6.9 and AES tickets

2014-07-31 Thread Brandon Allbery
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 key. Also clients still default to no encryption in the cache manager (fs setcrypt). Just

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Authentication without aklog

2014-07-31 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2014-07-31 at 17:32 -0500, Andrew Deason wrote: But even this seems like a good example of why some people are frustrated or annoyed by all of this. Every single authentication framework thing needs to have its own AFS plugin, or AFS tool, or whatever; you just listed two different

Re: [OpenAFS] Can't start afsd

2014-07-04 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 22:48 +0200, Jean-Marc Choulet wrote: root@afs-db01:~# /etc/init.d/openafs-client start Starting AFS services: openafs afsd. afsd: ASSERT: cacheFiles 1000 diskblocks -26 That looks like a corrupt cache partition to me? -- brandon s allbery kf8nh

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

2014-06-26 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 08:19 -0700, Andrew Deason wrote: OS X has a few things like fink, macports, and brew, but that would be an extra big thing you'd have to install, which is pretty terrible to ask of users. I also don't know if those work with kernel modules at all, and some have had some

Re: [OpenAFS] Issue with immutable /usr

2014-05-05 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, 2014-05-05 at 19:17 +0200, Stephan Wiesand wrote: On May 5, 2014, at 00:44 , Brandon Allbery wrote: On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 13:17 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: In the default configuration of OpenAFS as shipped (1.6.7), the systemd unit file attempts to edit /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB

Re: [OpenAFS] Issue with immutable /usr

2014-05-04 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, 2014-05-04 at 13:17 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: In the default configuration of OpenAFS as shipped (1.6.7), the systemd unit file attempts to edit /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB. In a new method of OS deployment, called rpm-ostree[1], the /usr namespace is completely immutable and versioned.

Re: [OpenAFS] rxk: authentication expired

2014-03-14 Thread Brandon Allbery
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 reinitiated and aklog'd every 6 hours? The

Re: [OpenAFS] 1.6.6 and the mac firewall

2014-03-06 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2014-03-06 at 16:54 +0100, Dan van der Ster wrote: Normally, signed executables can have ports opened (evidenced by the similarly named checkbox in the system prefs). But since 1.6.6 is not signed, I presume its ports are not being opened by mac os. It's a little more complex than

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: nightly failure since upgrading to 1.6.5

2014-02-28 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2014-02-27 at 23:30 -0600, Andrew Deason wrote: As for what is triggering this behavior, as far as I can tell it's just a normal short read from the fssync socket. That is, one side sends 292 bytes, and the other receives 200 bytes (and then would receive another 92 bytes if it

Re: [OpenAFS] Linux OpenAFS EncFS?

2014-02-20 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 13:14 -0600, Troy Benjegerdes wrote: I remember hearing lots of arguments that getting rid of DES keys would take tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and that 'developers need to eat' etc etc. Then one day an exploit was announced, and all of a sudden we got

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Minimal toy OpenAFS install?

2014-02-14 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 00:59 -0600, Andrew Deason wrote: You don't need a DNS server (BIND), but you do need to pick a name for the AFS cell, and some people will recommend that having a real DNS server can make things easier. The cell name is usually a DNS FQDN, but it doesn't actually need to

Re: [OpenAFS] DES session key after removal of KeyFile

2014-02-12 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 14:20 +0100, Staffan Hämälä wrote: For some reason, we're still getting a DES session key after removing the KeyFile on all OpenAFS-servers, and touching CellServDB, according to these instructions: https://www.openafs.org/pages/security/install-rxkad-k5-1.6.txt Old

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: DES session key after removal of KeyFile

2014-02-12 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 2014-02-12 at 09:49 -0600, Andrew Deason wrote: Heimdal and MIT I think, the allow_weak_crypto (not allow_weak_enctypes, unless I have that reversed) option can turn that off. Newer MIT also Sigh, I seem to always get that one wrong if I don't look first. :/ -- brandon s allbery

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: DB servers quorum and OpenAFS tools

2014-01-24 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-01-24 at 11:41 -0500, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: The problem is the one-off clients that make _one RPC_ and then exit. They have no opportunity to remember what didn't work last time. It Has it been considered to write a cache file somewhere (even a user dotfile) that could be used

Re: [OpenAFS] Extract files from /vicepa

2014-01-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 11:05 +, Germán Ferrari wrote: I don't understand the part about the salvager deleting the data. I have the recovered /vicepa folder on a ntfs partition. I'm trying to Last I checked, we don't have a working server for Windows... how did the server partition end up

Re: [OpenAFS] Done the rekeying of my cell, but unpatched clients still works

2014-01-08 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 18:11 +, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote: I have a cell of OpenAFS and a kerberos5 realm for tests. I have done the re-keying of afs/celname@REALMNAME as explained in http://openafs.org/pages/security/install-rxkad-k5-1.6.txt

Re: [OpenAFS] error: Failed dependencies

2014-01-06 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 15:19 -0500, predr...@andrew.cmu.edu wrote: consequently people could not use AFS. No big deal I thought thanks to these guys http://dl.openafs.org/dl/openafs/1.6.5/rhel6/x86_64/ However [root@loco init.d]# rpm -Uhv

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: Request for testing: NATs and 1.6.6pre*

2013-12-21 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 09:33 +0200, Jukka Tuominen wrote: Thank you Atro, That is very promising, I will look into it. I remember tweaking ff preferences more network friendly earlier, but this particular one I can't recall. I'd be happy to fix the ff issue, but I still think there is

Re: [OpenAFS] Firefox OpenAFS home directory (was: Request for testing: NATs and 1.6.6pre*)

2013-12-21 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Sun, 2013-12-22 at 00:06 +0200, Jukka Tuominen wrote: Brandon, I'm afraid redirecting to local files is unlikely to work in this case, since the client image is read-only. Only the homedirs on the server survive client reboots. That is intentional and an important feature of the Liitin

Re: [OpenAFS] About openafs discon mode

2013-12-20 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Fri, 2013-12-20 at 17:03 +0100, nicolas prochazka wrote: 1 - find /afs/test.com -type f -exec cat {} /dev/null \; 2 - fs discon off 3 - I can use all files without problem, but after a an indefinite period ( 1 minutes and 5 hours ) i get ls: cannot access /afs/test.com/ : Network

Re: [OpenAFS] Request for Assistance with OpenAFS

2013-12-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, 2013-12-16 at 15:39 -0500, David Flatley wrote: I compiled OpenAFS 1.6.1 for a Red Hat 5.6 server. In the /afs directory there are all the cells for all our various AFS cells. On an AIX system there is a link for the short name for our local cell. On my Linux system there is no

Re: [OpenAFS] PAM authentication failed on SL6

2013-10-22 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 10/22/13 05:38, huangql huan...@ihep.ac.cn wrote: The questions stuck me for weeks. Does anyone get the same problem and could you give me some suggestions? You don't provide enough information, because all the stacks you provided use pam_stack.so to load the system-auth stack which you didn't

Re: [OpenAFS] PAM authentication failed on SL6

2013-10-22 Thread Brandon Allbery
...@ihep.ac.cnmailto:huan...@ihep.ac.cn Date: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 10:53 To: Brandon Allbery ballb...@sinenomine.netmailto:ballb...@sinenomine.net, openafs-info@openafs.orgmailto:openafs-info@openafs.org openafs-info@openafs.orgmailto:openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: Re: Re: [OpenAFS] PAM

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: [ Openafs : cache on zfs ]

2013-10-03 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 10/3/13 14:08, nicolas prochazka prochazka.nico...@gmail.com wrote: hello, sorry for the spam, this is a misconfigured cache option. Regards, Nicolas Prochazka. 2013/10/3 nicolas prochazka prochazka.nico...@gmail.com: Hello again , after some tests to use zfs as afs cache, linux kernel

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

2013-10-03 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 10/3/13 15:47, Andrew Deason adea...@sinenomine.net wrote: On Thu, 03 Oct 2013 11:39:34 -0700 Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: + exec /usr/share/debconf/frontend configure [...] set -x doesn't follow shell scripts through debconf because debconf does some black magic to reinvoke

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

2013-09-24 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 9/24/13 15:50, Jukka Tuominen jukka.tuomi...@finndesign.fi wrote: I understood the client pointing to two different domains with a single destiny. I can also switch between the two servers (old and new) one at the time, but I can't understand how the server can hold the two domains at once.

Re: [OpenAFS] Naming of backup and up commands

2013-09-23 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 9/22/13 20:51, Russ Allbery r...@stanford.edu wrote: Failing that, I'm probably going to split butc, backup, and fms into a separate package to make it easier for other packages to conflict with it due to the poorly-chosen command name instead of conflicting with all of openafs-client.

Re: [OpenAFS] building swig based interfaces

2013-09-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 9/1/13 12:49, Gémes Géza g...@kzsdabas.hu wrote: 2013-09-01 14:57 keltezéssel, Gémes Géza írta: Sorry if it sounds nitpickering, but I want to be sure, I didn't misunderstood your idea. In a nutshell your proposal for me is to design a swig interface around exec calls for the existing

Re: [OpenAFS] Removing stuff from /afs

2013-07-30 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 7/30/13 12:01, Jaap Winius jwin...@umrk.nl 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 If you're using dynroot, that's an autocreated directory which can be used to

Re: [OpenAFS] MIT Kerberos des session key

2013-07-30 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 7/30/13 14:39, John Sopko so...@cs.unc.edu wrote: Where is the session key for the afs/cell@REALM service principal derived from? If I remove the des-cbc-crc encryption type from both the afs/cell@REALM and the user principals will things still work without having to upgrade all clients to

Re: [OpenAFS] Multi-homed server and NAT-ed client issues

2013-07-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 7/17/13 14:28, Ciprian Dorin Craciun ciprian.crac...@gmail.com wrote: In that case, you use the -rxbind option, which tells the servers to bind to a specific address instead of INADDR_ANY. That option needs to be passed to each server process for which you want that behavior. Indeed

RE: [OpenAFS] Salvaging user volumes

2013-06-13 Thread Brandon Allbery
I should note here that salvage is like fsck; most Unix-like systems force you to periodically run fsck to catch any incidental filesystem damage that may have occurred. Hard drives are far from perfect; having worked with a number of storage researchers over the past 10+ years, I have learned

RE: [OpenAFS] About cache persistence over reboot

2013-06-13 Thread Brandon Allbery
In a normal AFS configuration, disk cache is persistent. I don't know how Gentoo configures its openafs packages; it may be using a ramdisk or tmpfs or etc. for the cache partition. -Original Message- From: openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-ad...@openafs.org] On

Re: [OpenAFS] Moving Authen Servers to different IP addresses

2013-04-22 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 4/22/13 14:48 , Greg Wilson greg.wil...@asu.edumailto:greg.wil...@asu.edu wrote: Here at ASU we currently have the 3 defined authen servers know by our AFS clients all in one network subnet. We have a need to be able to split these up to several different network locations. What are the

Re: [OpenAFS] Server disk operations speed

2013-04-08 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 4/8/13 14:09 , jukka.tuomi...@finndesign.fi jukka.tuomi...@finndesign.fi wrote: understanding the depths of afs - isn't the afs cache meant to be always in sync with the server, or is it possible (default?) for the applications to let go the data before it is confirmed to exist on the server?

RE: [OpenAFS] Re: mtu problem

2013-02-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
A host or network which drops all ICMP indiscriminately is fundamentally broken, and I could make an argument for not allowing it to communicate with other networks at all. If someone is demanding drop-all-ICMP as security best practice then you need to find someone who actually understands

RE: [OpenAFS] Re: mtu problem

2013-02-07 Thread Brandon Allbery
, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonadhttp://sinenomine.net From: Derek Atkins [warl...@mit.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 13:36 To: Brandon Allbery Cc: Antony Mayi; Andrew Deason; openafs-info@openafs.org Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] Re: mtu

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: recover data from corrupted volume

2013-01-18 Thread Brandon Allbery
On 1/18/13 20:22, Dimitris Z dimitr...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like the rsync I did did not preserve ownership information. This may explain why the salvager cannot do a proper restoration of the volumes or why the volumes are not working. Is there a way to get around this? It does not really

RE: [OpenAFS] Shutdown/startup of entire cell

2013-01-10 Thread Brandon Allbery
1) When shutting down, should all database servers be shutdown before the fileservers, or should the fileservers be shutdown first? 2) When starting up, should the fileservers be started first, or should the database servers be started first? You need the database servers to be up while

RE: [OpenAFS] Re: fs: You don't have the required access rights on '/afs'

2013-01-09 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 10:16:25 +0800 (CST) 杭友春 idealh...@163.com wrote: fs setacl /afs system:anyuser rl it tells me : fs:You don't have the required access rights on '/afs' I know I have no right.But how can I get the access right? You need to have AFS tokens as an AFS

Re: [OpenAFS] Formal specification of pts group names.

2012-12-17 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Booker Bense bbe...@gmail.com wrote: Is this statement in the IBM man page still true? Specifies the name of each group to create. Provide a string of up to 63 characters, which can include lowercase (but not uppercase) letters, numbers, and punctuation

Re: [OpenAFS] False replay error with 1.7 on Win 7 client (fwd)

2012-12-12 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Steve Gaarder gaard...@math.cornell.eduwrote: On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Harald Barth wrote: 1. Create afs/math.cornell.edu@MATH.**CORNELL.EDUmath.cornell@math.cornell.edu 2. Store the key in a keytab file 3. Use asetkey to add the key to the keyfile on each

Re: [OpenAFS] False replay error with 1.7 on Win 7 client (fwd)

2012-12-12 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Steve Gaarder gaar...@math.cornell.eduwrote: THanks. Do I need to restart the afs servers in order to have them use the new key? Shouldn't be. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com

Re: [OpenAFS] Graphical file managers get stuck

2012-12-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:16 PM, jukka.tuomi...@finndesign.fi wrote: I am by no means an administrator, rather a UX designer building a concept design as easy as possible for the end users. So, I take it, it is possible to build an afs client without static pointers to afs servers. I hope

Re: [OpenAFS] Graphical file managers get stuck

2012-12-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Simon Wilkinson simonxwilkin...@gmail.comwrote: On 11 Dec 2012, at 21:29, Brandon Allbery wrote: This is what SRV records are for, yes. Ideally, the CellServDB on clients is for legacy use with old cells Sadly, there are loads of situations where the client

Re: [OpenAFS] Graphical file managers get stuck

2012-12-10 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:12 PM, jukka.tuomi...@finndesign.fi wrote: What do you mean by publishing DNS SRV records? The server has a FQDN but do you mean something else? Modern AFS autodiscovers the servers for a cell via DNS, much like other modern services. See

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