Distributed Services with OpenAFS: for Enterprise and Education

This book shows in detail how to build enterprise-level secure,redundant, and highly scalable services from scratch on top of theopen source Linux operating system, suitable for small companies aswell as big universities. The core architecture presented is based onKerberos, LDAP, AFS, and Samba. It is shown how to integrate web,message related, data base and other services with this backbone. Thisarchitecture provides a Single-Sign-On solution for different clientplatforms and can also be employed for clustering. Although it isimplemented with Debian GNU/Linux, the content can be applied to otherUNIX flavors.