UPSERVER(8) AFS Command Reference UPSERVER(8)NAMEupserver - Initializes the server portion of the Update Server
SYNOPSISupserver [<directory>+] [-crypt <directory>+]
[-clear <directory>+] [-auth <directory>+] [-help]
DESCRIPTION
The upserver command initializes the server portion of the Update
Server (the "upserver" process). In the conventional configuration, its
binary file is located in the /usr/afs/bin directory on a file server
machine.
The upserver command is not normally issued at the command shell prompt
but rather placed into a file server machine's /usr/afs/local/BosConfig
file with the bos create command. If it is ever issued at the command
shell prompt, the issuer must be logged onto a database server machine
as the local superuser "root".
The upserver command specifies which of the directories on the local
disk are eligible for distribution in response to requests from the
client portion of the Update Server (the upclient process) running on
other machines. If no directories are specified, the upserver process
distributes the contents of any directory on its local disk.
The upserver process can distribute a directory's contents in encrypted
or unencrypted form. By default, it does not use encryption unless an
upclient process requests it (this default is equivalent to setting the
-clear flag). When the -crypt flag is provided, the upserver process
only fulfills requests for encrypted transfer.
The upclient and upserver processes always mutually authenticate,
whether or not the data they pass is encrypted; they use the key with
the highest key version number in the /usr/afs/etc/KeyFile file to
construct a server ticket for mutual authentication.
This command does not use the syntax conventions of the AFS command
suites. Provide the command name and all option names in full.
CAUTIONS
Do not use the Update Server to distribute the contents of the
/usr/afs/etc directory without the -crypt flag. The contents of this
directory are sensitive.
OPTIONS
<directory>+
Names each directory to distribute in unencrypted form (because
they appear before the first -crypt or -clear flag on the command
line). If this argument is omitted, all directories on the
machine's local disk are eligible for distribution.
-crypt <directory>+
Precedes a list of one or more directories that the upserver
process distributes only in encrypted form.
-clear <directory>+
Precedes a list of one or more directories that the upserver
process distributes in unencrypted form unless the upclient process
requests them in encrypted form. Use this argument only if a list
of directories headed by the -crypt flag precedes it on the command
line.
-auth <directory>+
Precedes a list of one or more directories which the upserver
process distributes using a form of encryption that is intermediate
in complexity and security between the unencrypted and encrypted
levels set by the -clear and -crypt arguments. Do not use this
argument, because the upclient process does not have a
corresponding argument that it can use to request data transfer at
this level.
-help
Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options
are ignored.
EXAMPLES
The following example bos create command defines and starts an upserver
process on the host machine "fs1.abc.com". The last parameter (enclosed
in quotes) instructs the upserver process to distribute the contents of
the /usr/afs/bin directory in unencrypted form and the contents of the
/usr/afs/etc directory in encrypted form.
% bos create -server fs1.abc.com -instanceupserver-type simple \
-cmd "/usr/afs/bin/upserver /usr/afs/bin -crypt /usr/afs/etc"
PRIVILEGE REQUIRED
The issuer must be logged in as the superuser "root" on a file server
machine to issue the command at a command shell prompt. It is
conventional instead to create and start the process by issuing the bos
create command.
SEE ALSOBosConfig(5), bos_create(8), upclient(8)COPYRIGHT
IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.
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