[484] in Kerberos
new beta test site
daemon@TELECOM.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Steiner)
Thu Aug 11 08:31:49 1988
To: kerberos@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
From: Jennifer Steiner <steiner@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
From: mts@emptys.cc.umich.edu (Michael T. Stolarchuk)
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There has been some public announcement about the UofM-IBM
contract to develop the IFS (institutional file system).
The project is beginning with the AFS from CMU. We currently
plan to provide AFS facilites on our IBM 3090-600E, with
some more local intermediate servers. The AFS code will
be moved into an MVS environment, a CMS (VM/370) environment,
and of course AIX 370. We want to stay protocol compatable
with CMU so that we can use CMU's file systems too.
The project's goal is to provide an instituional wide
file system for all of the machines which want to be connected.
Services will be provided so that clients can connect to
the IFS, unaware of whether the operating system which is
providing the service is MVS.
Some University officials believe the UofM community will
need support for 30,000 workstations within a few years.
Currently the university has over 500 advanced function workstations,
and about 2000 public limited function workstations.
Because of the different vendors involved, and the different
environments, we will need some mechanism for distributed
authentication. We already have this problem with services
we would like to provide on the IBM mainframe -- printing and
backup services. Kerberos would help us begin integrating
these sevices into our distributed environment.
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