[Infrastructures] user management (mixing afs,ldap,kerberos)

Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:47:50 -0500

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Have you guys ever looked at Peerfs?  www.radiantdata.com  I'm about to 
start playing with it in my lab.

Thanks,

Steve Traugott wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:47:56AM -0800, Carlson, Scott wrote:
>  
>
>>We decided to get rid of our AFS infrustructure, mainly because it was
>>overkill for what we need.  We're currently relying on an unsupported
>>version of IBM AFS and never did get enough people interested to do an
>>OpenAFS migration.  Our AFS infrastructure has been rock solid for about 6
>>years, but it's sorely unmaintained.  Also, with aproximately 2400 people
>>who need a 'shell equivalent' account here, trying to manage that in AFS
>>isn't quite what my engineering team signed up for.  Automounting NFS
>>probably will be the best bet in the end since no more then 10 people would
>>ever log in concurrently to a single machine.
>>    
>>
>
>Scott, you might want to take a look at the description of Morgan
>Stanley's AFS infrastructure in Campbell's AFS book.  I can't say too
>much more because I'm there right now.  I can say that, having built
>NFS-automounted trading floors at other firms, in hindsight I regret not
>having embraced AFS earlier.  OpenAFS is well worth migrating to as
>well.  
>
>My own thoughts include an opinion that Sarbanes-Oxley sections 404 and
>802 are likely to make NFS even less appealing by comparison.
> 
>Steve
>  
>

-- 
Jonathan W. Sabo
Code 5580
Naval Research Lab
jonathan.sabo@nrl.navy.mil
Fax: (202)-404-1190 
Phone: (202)-767-3901

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Have you guys ever looked at Peerfs?&nbsp; <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.radiantdata.com">www.radiantdata.com</a>&nbsp; I'm about to
start playing with it in my lab.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Steve Traugott wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 07:47:56AM -0800, Carlson, Scott wrote:
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    <pre wrap="">We decided to get rid of our AFS infrustructure, mainly because it was
overkill for what we need.  We're currently relying on an unsupported
version of IBM AFS and never did get enough people interested to do an
OpenAFS migration.  Our AFS infrastructure has been rock solid for about 6
years, but it's sorely unmaintained.  Also, with aproximately 2400 people
who need a 'shell equivalent' account here, trying to manage that in AFS
isn't quite what my engineering team signed up for.  Automounting NFS
probably will be the best bet in the end since no more then 10 people would
ever log in concurrently to a single machine.
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Scott, you might want to take a look at the description of Morgan
Stanley's AFS infrastructure in Campbell's AFS book.  I can't say too
much more because I'm there right now.  I can say that, having built
NFS-automounted trading floors at other firms, in hindsight I regret not
having embraced AFS earlier.  OpenAFS is well worth migrating to as
well.  

My own thoughts include an opinion that Sarbanes-Oxley sections 404 and
802 are likely to make NFS even less appealing by comparison.

Steve
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
Jonathan W. Sabo
Code 5580
Naval Research Lab
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jonathan.sabo@nrl.navy.mil">jonathan.sabo@nrl.navy.mil</a>
Fax: (202)-404-1190 
Phone: (202)-767-3901
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