* Perry Lorier <perry(a)coders.net> [2004-06-30 23:27]:
American Universities run Kerberos, LDAP and AFS for their authentication/user directory/file storage.
This does seem interesting: http://www.openafs.org/frameless/success.html
(On the flipside, I've personally never managed to get it working, but you don't need to tell the PHB that :)
That was my impression about AFS; some of it hearsay, of which I wasn't sure how much of it is true. However, I do know that even though my own local Uni uses AFS for the file servers in the data centre, I've yet to encounter a single stray Windows machine that's hooked up to the AFS, while a lot of the Unix machines have been. Admittedly, I don't know what things look like in the computer pools. Maybe this is an area that needs more advocacy (and possibly effort to make it work smoother?). Regards, -- Aristotle "If you can't laugh at yourself, you don't take life seriously enough."