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Hi Jordan, On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Jordan Mendelson wrote: > I'm basically trying to rid myself of the NFS server and clients we have. We > use NFS to distribute home directories around servers, so everyone can log > in and have access to their own directory. Their home directories contain > things such as public_html directories for hosting, etc. Careful: Coda is experimental. You can use it, but you must absolutely be certain that you have good backups etc. > > Is there a way that I can automatically have a user authenticate with the > auth2 server when they log in? The problem is that they have to enter their > password twice otherwise (once for system login, once for auth2 login). Not > to mention that they have to enter it in every time their ticket expires > (once an hour?) The tickets expire every 25hours. A PAM module could do the job - that shouldn't be so complicated to write (volunteers?). > > I also have automated processes (web server) which must read those home > directories and have access to the files (public_html). You will have to tell clog to read the password from a protected file. > > Right now I'm at the point where I have a server and client setup... I can > mount the server, log in as 'coda'.. clog in as coda and play with files. > > I also have the problem that auth2 has it's own password file and isn't > using system database instead. Auth2 can use a Kerberos password database. Perhaps that is useful to you, since that can give a system wide password database (which is also quite secure). > > Maybe CODA isn't a good replacement for NFS in this case. NFS has no security so that does "help" in making it simple. Good luck, thanks for your interest in Coda. - Peter - > > > Jordan > > -- > Jordan Mendelson : http://jordy.wserv.com > Web Services, Inc. : http://www.wserv.com > >Received on 1998-11-25 10:21:07