GUI for AFS
David Botsch <[email protected]>
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Now available from http://cf.ccmr.cornell.edu/publicdownloads/afs is a new gui for openafs. The purpose of this gui is to make things AFS somewhat more userfriendly for the enduser. This app is called "afstokens" as its original purpose was just to display tokens and allow one to destroy/obtain new tokens. It has since been expanded somewhat, but, the name remains until a better one is thought up. The app is written in C using gtk+-2. So, you'll need both of those plus openafs to compile (I have used openafs1.2.10). Included in the tar file is a Makefile for compiling with pthread support. Also available is a binary compiled under redhat 7.3. (You may also note there is a Mac Jaguar version available... this version does not require gtk as it uses cocoa). So far, the following features are present: obtain/destroy tokens view group membership view/change/edit owned groups Todo/bugs: * I need to get the multirealm code working. Right now, even though a cell box is present, changing the cell name has no effect for ptserver stuff (although, you can obtain tickets in multiple cells). * Thinking about allowing editing of afs directory/file perms. * PTServer caching. AFS libs cache which ptserver we're talking to. So, when clearing out the old information, you'll see a stdout/err error message about "libprot: no configuration directory". There is a patch against openafs-1.2.10 to get rid of this error message (and the error itself is harmless). If you find a bug, let me know, or better yet, send me a patch. If you would like to add on, once again, send me a patch. Enjoy! -- ******************************** David William Botsch Consultant/Advisor II CCMR Computing Facility [email protected] ********************************