[4823] in Kerberos
Re: where to store kerberos5 binaries
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hascall)
Thu Mar 16 13:15:07 1995
To: kerberos@MIT.EDU
Date: 16 Mar 1995 17:46:12 GMT
From: john@iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Mark Verber <verber@parc.xerox.com> wrote:
}Many sites seem to store their Kerberized clients and servers on the
}local workstation, for example in a /krb5 directory tree. Is anyonen
}keeping this tree in AFS space (marked world readable) rather than on
}the local machine? This would simplify updates and should be a bit
}more secure than having the binaries on the local machine. Other
}than AFS being unavailable making it impossible to authentication, has
}anyone had problems keeping the binaries in AFS space?
Yes, we do. In fact, we keep almost everything in AFS:
pooh.cc> ls -l /usr
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root [...] /usr -> /afs/iastate.edu/system/ro/dec/v4/usr
John
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John Hascall ``An ill-chosen word is the fool's messenger.''
Systems Software Engineer, ISU Comp Center + Ames, IA 50011 + 515/294-9551
