Re: [OpenAFS] Strange group behaviour.

2008-01-25 Thread Anders Magnusson
Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:01:52AM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, I have just encountered a non-working behavior of group membership, and I cannot see what I'm doing wrong. Environment: Redhat, OpenAFS 1.4.5 on both server and client. I have an user: %

[OpenAFS] Strange group behaviour.

2008-01-25 Thread Anders Magnusson
Hi, I have just encountered a non-working behavior of group membership, and I cannot see what I'm doing wrong. Environment: Redhat, OpenAFS 1.4.5 on both server and client. I have an user: % pts examine afs-backup Name: afs-backup, id: 99942, owner: system:administrators, creator:

Re: [OpenAFS] Strange group behaviour.

2008-01-25 Thread Frank Burkhardt
Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 11:01:52AM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, I have just encountered a non-working behavior of group membership, and I cannot see what I'm doing wrong. Environment: Redhat, OpenAFS 1.4.5 on both server and client. I have an user: % pts examine

[OpenAFS] PAM problem with 1.4.4 and Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Jeff Blaine
Hi all, if anyone has any ideas about this, please let me know. * OpenAFS 1.4.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 * SSHD without privsep * User gets in but has no tokens authrequired pam_env.so authsufficient/lib/security/pam_afs.so.1 ignore_root

Re: [OpenAFS] Replication, Fail-over, Disconnected Operation and Caching

2008-01-25 Thread Harald Barth
Regardless, there are. I wouldn't try something over 20gb. We are not quite there yet, ftp.stacken.kth.se Solaris 10 on old Compaq x86: # /usr/afs/*/fs getcac AFS using 14963631 of the cache's available 1600 1K byte blocks. afsd -stat 62500 -daemons 27 -volumes 250 -afsdb -dcache 62500 -c

Re: [OpenAFS] Replication, Fail-over, Disconnected Operation and Caching

2008-01-25 Thread openafs
2) From the documentation, it looks like the replication mechanism is single-master / multiple-slaves, i.e. one read-write server, multiple read-only servers. Is that correct? Yes If so, do clients transparently handle this? Are writes transparently routed to the read-write server while

Re: [OpenAFS] PAM problem with 1.4.4 and Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Simon Wilkinson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25 Jan 2008, at 16:54, Jeff Blaine wrote: I do have to admit though that I have no idea what keyring based PAGs means. AFS typically provides session based PAGs. These allow you to seperate your AFS credentials into compartments that are

Re: [OpenAFS] PAM problem with 1.4.4 and Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 25 Jan 2008, at 16:19, Jeff Blaine wrote: Hi all, if anyone has any ideas about this, please let me know. * OpenAFS 1.4.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 * SSHD without privsep * User gets in but has no tokens See my talk from last years best practices workshop - http://

Re: [OpenAFS] Find(1) behavior

2008-01-25 Thread Anders Magnusson
Frank Burkhardt wrote: Hi, On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:39:18PM +0100, Anders Magnusson wrote: Hi, I'll continue to spam the list with other odd things that I notice :-) Environment: Redhat 4.3, OpenAFS 1.4.5 on both server and client. find does not seems to cross AFS mountpoint

Re: [OpenAFS] Find(1) behavior

2008-01-25 Thread Harald Barth
find does not seems to cross AFS mountpoint boundaries. I suppose you mean GNU find. -noleaf Do not optimize by assuming that directories contain 2 fewer subdirectories than their hard link count. This option is needed when searching

[OpenAFS] Replication, Fail-over, Disconnected Operation and Caching

2008-01-25 Thread openafs
Hi, I've looked through the documentation, but couldn't find any specifics on this, so I'd be grateful if somebody could point me at the page I've missed. 1) How do OpenAFS clients pick a server to access a volume from if the volume is replicated on multiple servers? 2) From the

Re: [OpenAFS] PAM problem with 1.4.4 and Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Jeff Blaine
That worked - thanks Simon! I do have to admit though that I have no idea what keyring based PAGs means. That's a little lower level than my knowledge goes. Any chance you have a explanation short enough that it's reasonable to type out? I'd like to understand what else I may have affected by

Re: [OpenAFS] PAM problem with 1.4.4 and Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Simon Wilkinson
On 25 Jan 2008, at 16:36, Jeff Blaine wrote: ChallengeResponseAuthentication is set to no Any other ideas? What's in your session stack - do you have a call to pam_keyinit.so? If you're using keyring based PAGs, then pam_keyinit will remove the key created by AFS to hold your PAG when it

Re: [OpenAFS] PAM problem with 1.4.4 and Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Jeff Blaine
ChallengeResponseAuthentication is set to no Any other ideas? Simon Wilkinson wrote: On 25 Jan 2008, at 16:19, Jeff Blaine wrote: Hi all, if anyone has any ideas about this, please let me know. * OpenAFS 1.4.4 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 * SSHD without privsep * User gets

Re: [OpenAFS] Replication, Fail-over, Disconnected Operation and Caching

2008-01-25 Thread Jeffrey Altman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see, so replicated volumes are static, rather than constantly catching up? Currently, AFS support read-only replication but not read-write replication. A .readonly volume is paired to a read-write volume. The vos release command will copy the current contents of

Re: [OpenAFS] Solaris 10 (x86): pam_afs_session

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas E. Engert
Russ Allbery wrote: John Tang Boyland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ] It looks like you're not running pam_krb5 in the session stack. pam_krb5 ] should be listed in the session stack before pam_afs_session, and that ] will probably fix the problem. (BTW: This is Sun-provided pam_krb5) Ah,