Re: [OpenAFS] home on afs woes

2006-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, January 05, 2006 04:21:52 PM -0500 Rodney M Dyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Wasn't there some talk about the DFS code being opened? And didn't DFS have file level ACLs? Could any of that code be ported to AFS, or is there already a project underway for file level ACLs in AFS?

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: listing the obstacles to multiple fileservers on one machine

2006-01-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Adam Megacz wrote: By the way, it looks like there's a moderately-easy way to achieve network interface isolation (on Linux at least); it looks like you can use the "chbind" command from the VServer project without going to the trouble of setting up a whole virtual machine

[OpenAFS] Re: listing the obstacles to multiple fileservers on one machine

2006-01-05 Thread Adam Megacz
Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Adam Megacz wrote: >> What are the problems with running multiple servers, assuming I >> compiled multiple copies of OpenAFS (with different --prefix= >> configure arguments) and somehow managed to get each one to think that >> t

Re: [OpenAFS] listing the obstacles to multiple fileservers on one machine

2006-01-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Adam Megacz wrote: What are the problems with running multiple servers, assuming I compiled multiple copies of OpenAFS (with different --prefix= configure arguments) and somehow managed to get each one to think that the machine only had one network interface (and each copy sa

[OpenAFS] listing the obstacles to multiple fileservers on one machine

2006-01-05 Thread Adam Megacz
> Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You could modify the code for the server processes to support -rxbind. >> Other people have covered why it's not necessarily what you want, and >> you aren't likely to find a "cheap" way to serve multiple cells from a >> single machine. Actually

Re: [OpenAFS] home on afs woes

2006-01-05 Thread Rodney M Dyer
At 03:30 PM 1/5/2006, Lester Barrows wrote: On Thursday 05 January 2006 7:32 am, Ken Hornstein wrote: This appears to be a security decision based primarily on a technical limitation in AFS. The per-directory ACL limitation itself was more or less what I was discussing, as it has caused me more t

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread Charles Duffy
Adam Megacz wrote: > Any off-the-top-of-the-head reasons why an OpenAFS **server** would > get upset running in user mode linux [1] with its own IP all to > itself? > I can't offhand, but I *would* advise looking into Xen instead -- it has a much, much smaller performance footprint.

Re: [OpenAFS] home on afs woes

2006-01-05 Thread Douglas E. Engert
I have found this discussion very interesting, and it appears many sites are living with the "l" symlinks for .k5login to a directory with "rl". mostly because that is the simplest thing to do. But after reading Jeff Hutzelman's note from earlier today, maybe the problem is not with AFS but with K

Re: [OpenAFS] Re: rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Adam Megacz wrote: Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You could modify the code for the server processes to support -rxbind. Other people have covered why it's not necessarily what you want, and you aren't likely to find a "cheap" way to serve multiple cells fro

[OpenAFS] Re: rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread Adam Megacz
Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You could modify the code for the server processes to support -rxbind. > Other people have covered why it's not necessarily what you want, and > you aren't likely to find a "cheap" way to serve multiple cells from a > single machine. Yeah, that's a

Re: [OpenAFS] home on afs woes

2006-01-05 Thread Lester Barrows
On Thursday 05 January 2006 7:32 am, Ken Hornstein wrote: > Given the choice between files possibly being world-readable and users > having to expose their password for every login (even if you're > encrypting the session, we've learned the hard way that isn't enough > anymore), we decided to go wi

Re: [OpenAFS] No such device in ls

2006-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Sean Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This may have been covered in list archives somewhere, but I failed to > locate it. > I'm having an issue where dead/broken mountpoints in AFS cause ls to > output error messages. For example, I just did a `vos remove ` > of a mounted volume and now when I

Re: [OpenAFS] No such device in ls

2006-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, January 05, 2006 11:58:11 AM -0600 Sean Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings. This may have been covered in list archives somewhere, but I failed to locate it. I'm having an issue where dead/broken mountpoints in AFS cause ls to output error messages. For example, I just

Re: [OpenAFS] rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Jeffrey Hutzelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Isn't he just trying to bind each process to specific addresses and >> port 7000? That's a pretty standard thing to want to do and has a >> standard Unix API. > Yes, but I think he's looking for some sort

[OpenAFS] No such device in ls

2006-01-05 Thread Sean Kelly
Greetings. This may have been covered in list archives somewhere, but I failed to locate it. I'm having an issue where dead/broken mountpoints in AFS cause ls to output error messages. For example, I just did a `vos remove ` of a mounted volume and now when I try to remove the mountpoint: [EMAIL

Re: [OpenAFS] rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: You mean like maybe rx.c:rx_InitHost(u_int host, u_int port) Ugh. Your CVS comment for that change says it all: i should be dragged away and beaten for this It's ugly. But we need an API which takes an array of host/port, and is IPV6 friendly

Re: [OpenAFS] rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, January 05, 2006 12:15:59 PM -0500 Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:53:17 AM -0500 Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could modify the code for the server processes to

Re: [OpenAFS] rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread Charles Duffy
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: > Yes, but I think he's looking for some sort of magic that will let him > do it without modifying code. I know of no such thing. I've seen it done through LD_PRELOAD. Google finds an implementation or two pretty quickly. ___ Ope

Re: [OpenAFS] CVS repository

2006-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, January 05, 2006 09:27:35 AM -0500 Andrew Bacchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While trying to solve my problem for the 'package' program, I tried logging into CVS as anonymous. This failed with the password 'anonymous'. Has the password changed, or is access now restricted? Wo

Re: [OpenAFS] rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:53:17 AM -0500 Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could modify the code for the server processes to support -rxbind. You could, but it would require an interface not currently provided by rx, in

Re: [OpenAFS] rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, January 05, 2006 10:53:17 AM -0500 Derrick J Brashear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You could modify the code for the server processes to support -rxbind. You could, but it would require an interface not currently provided by rx, in place of the current rx_Init() and rx_NewServi

Re: [OpenAFS] rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, January 04, 2006 07:44:26 PM -0800 Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jeffrey Hutzelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I can think of ways to redirect traffic coming in on a designated port to different ports depending on the incoming interface. But what you're trying to d

Re: [OpenAFS] rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread Derrick J Brashear
You could modify the code for the server processes to support -rxbind. Other people have covered why it's not necessarily what you want, and you aren't likely to find a "cheap" way to serve multiple cells from a single machine. Derrick Is there an equivalent to afsd's "-rxbind" for the serve

Re: [OpenAFS] rxbind for server processes?

2006-01-05 Thread ted creedon
Use ifconfig to bind the interface (eth0) & ipaddress (a.b.c.d) to the MAC address( e:f:f:h:i:j:k) on the network interface card. Eg. bind eth0 specifically to: HWaddr 00:12:2F:46:5F:CG inet addr:10.1.1.193 Bcast:10.1.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 tedc Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Wednesd

Re: [OpenAFS] home on afs woes

2006-01-05 Thread Ken Hornstein
>Most of our users will place files in their home directory, even in the top >level, expecting them to be secure. Additionally, I fully expect that most >users will leave permissions with the default settings. In this case, when a >user creates a directory it inherits the ACL privileges of its p

[OpenAFS] AFS clients using old CellServDB file

2006-01-05 Thread Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)
I mentioned in a recent post that one of our network gurus was checking network traffic. He noticed that a number of AFS clients were attempting to contact an AFS server which is no longer part of our cell (rl.ac.uk). As this server was removed from the CellServDB file more than 2 years ago, I su

[OpenAFS] CVS repository

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Bacchi
While trying to solve my problem for the 'package' program, I tried logging into CVS as anonymous. This failed with the password 'anonymous'. Has the password changed, or is access now restricted? Thanks. -- veritatis simplex oratio est - Seneca Andrew Bacchi Staff Systems

Re: [OpenAFS] "package" won't build 1.4.1-rc2

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Bacchi
I failed to send this reply to the list, sorry. Thank you Jeffery, for pointing me it the right direction. I'll certainly look into it, and try to come up with a reasonable patch. I am using RH AS 4 for this platform with a 2.6 kernel. It does appear to me that there have been changes to 'src/p

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS-Backup-Limits

2006-01-05 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 06:05:10PM +0100, Frank Burkhardt wrote: > Hi, > > are there any known limits to OpenAFS' backup database? I'm most interested > in: > > * max number of volume sets > * max number of tapes > * max number of dumps Thank you for sharing your experience on that.

[OpenAFS] Fedora core 4 on ppc

2006-01-05 Thread Peter M. Metcalf
Good morning, I have tried to "rpmbuild" the SRPMS and get the argument that "Architecture is not included" ppc. It looks like it is going and then fails out to above. Tried by using "spec" file that was on the site after and got the same result. Anything? Pete ___

Re: [OpenAFS] AFS clients and IP address 192.168.67.1

2006-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Altman
Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote: > Further to the above query and the reply from Hartmut, I did as he > suggested and issued the command "vos listaddr -cell XXX" for all cells > in the CellServDB file on the system in question. This generated a > large file (as expected) which included quote a lot i

RE: [OpenAFS] AFS clients and IP address 192.168.67.1

2006-01-05 Thread Wheeler, JF (Jonathan)
> -Original Message- > From: Hartmut Reuter > Sent: 04 January 2006 11:13 > > Wheeler, JF (Jonathan) wrote: > > Whilst investigating a network problem, one of our network gurus noticed > > that our AFS client systems are sending packets to IP address > > 192.168.67.1 (I confirmed this by u

Re: [OpenAFS] PAGs - where can I use them?

2006-01-05 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, On Wed, Jan 04, 2006 at 01:30:02PM -0500, Derrick J Brashear wrote: [snip] > And MacOS supports them but because of how the login window stuff works > they aren't used. Thank you - MacOSX is the OS, I was most interested in. Regards, Frank ___ O