NOAUTH(5) AFS File Reference NOAUTH(5)NAMENoAuth - Disables authorization checking
DESCRIPTION
The NoAuth file, if present in a server machine's /usr/afs/local
directory, indicates to the AFS server processes running on the machine
that it is not necessary to perform authorization checking. They
perform any action for any user who logs into the machine's local file
system or issues a remote command that affects the machine's AFS server
functioning, such as commands from the AFS command suites. Because
failure to check authorization exposes the machine's AFS server
functionality to attack, there are normally only two circumstances in
which the file is present:
· During installation of the machine, as instructed in the OpenAFS
Quick Start Guide.
· During correction of a server encryption key emergency, as
discussed in the OpenAFS Administration Guide.
In all other circumstances, the absence of the file means that the AFS
server processes perform authorization checking, verifying that the
issuer of a command has the required privilege.
Create the file in one of the following ways:
· By issuing the bosserver initialization command with the -noauth
flag, if the Basic OverSeer (BOS) Server is not already running.
· By issuing the bos setauth command with off as the value for the
-authrequired argument, if the BOS Server is already running.
To remove the file, issue the bos setauth command with "on" as the
value for the -authrequired argument.
The file's contents, if any, are ignored; an empty (zero-length) file
is effective.
SEE ALSObos_setauth(8), bosserver(8)COPYRIGHT
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