All,
On behalf of the OpenAFS Foundation Board of Directors, I am pleased to
announce that the OpenAFS initiative including any paid or volunteer
software development is now covered by Errors and Omissions insurance.
This is a big step forward and now allows contributions of code without
major fea
I need to upgrade our afs db servers. It has been sometime so I setup
a test cell with 3 servers to see how things react when the lowest IP
server is down.
When the lowest IP db server is down udebug shows the second lowest IP
becomes the sync site. But, I cannot do certain commands that time out
I did not have the secondary db machines in /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB.
All is good :)
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 9:57 AM, John Sopko wrote:
> I need to upgrade our afs db servers. It has been sometime so I setup
> a test cell with 3 servers to see how things react when the lowest IP
> server is down.
Hello,
I am trying to make some effective use of machine groups in AFS to accommodate
certain requirement of licensed software. I read about the feature, and noticed
that in the 1998 edition of the book "Managing AFS, The Andrew File System" by
Richard Campbell, the following text appeared in C
Hey, John.
Let me know if you have more problems, or just need to bounce any ideas
around.
I went through something similar last summer, but I actually changed IP
addresses (moved to a different VLAN). I decided to bite the bullet and
virtualize my DB servers at the same time. You may want t
That was intended to be addressed only to John. Mea culpa.
On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Stephen Joyce wrote:
Hey, John.
Let me know if you have more problems, or just need to bounce any ideas
around.
I went through something similar last summer, but I actually changed IP
addresses (moved to a differe
Were all friends, good to let the group know some of our issues! In my
case I built openafs 1.6.22.1 For Redhat 6.9 since there are no
binaries. When I updated it nuked the /usr/vice/etc/CellServDB.local
on my working cell so the clients did not know about about the
secondary servers anymore. We us
On 24 Jan 2018, at 14:31, Ximeng Guan wrote:
I would expect that a local user on 10.12.8.31, even without an AFS
token, would be able to "cd" into the top directory of the cell. But
in reality that does not happen. An unauthenticated user is denied of
access.
When I explicitly put "machinegr
On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 07:31:51PM +, Ximeng Guan wrote:
[snip]
> Did I miss anything here?
I don't think so. It's probably best to think of system:authuser as
a shorthand for "all entities that can authenticate to the
protection server", users and keytab-based credentials. The
machine/IP
