Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <200110151256.f9FCuKb14627@beige.ucs.indiana.edu> To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com cc: jochen@unc.edu Subject: Re: AFSTokenPassing In-reply-to: <86k7xxvpex.fsf@bock.chem.unc.edu> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 07:56:19 -0500 From: Zdzislaw Meglicki jochen@unc.edu: How are other people handling that (AFS and ssh under Cygwin)? In the archive I only found one message, I've tried to contact the author and am waiting for a reply. AFS and Ssh don't coexist well anyway. This depends on the platform. For example there are no problems at all under AIX, but this is because of AIX very special authentication mechanisms, which are transparent to external programs, such as ssh. Under Solaris you would expect that ssh would work with AFS through PAM, but it doesn't unless you backtrack to an older version of ssh and then apply some patches. If you connect to your PC via console, and if you have IBM AFS, then you can configure to have transparent login to the AFS at the same time. This is how I work with AFS on my PC. When I open Cygwin window then, AFS tokens transfer to this window and everything works just fine. A nice trick you can do with AFS and Cygwin. Configure your AFS to always mount AFS root (i.e., the /afs directory) on the same letter, e.g., g. Then within Cygwin environment issue: # ln -s /cygdrive/g /afs This gives you the traditional /afs mount at the root of your directory tree. Happy hacking, Zdzislaw (Gustav) Meglicki, gustav@indiana.edu, Indiana University, Office of the Vice President for Information Technology, 601 E. Kirkwood Ave., Room 116, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-1223, USA, ph: 812-856-5597, fax: 812-855-3310, http://beige.ucs.indiana.edu/gustav -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/