AKLOG-KAFS(1)

✨ AKLOG-KAFS ✨ 🎀 (aklog-kafs, the AFS Kerberos authentication tool) 🦋

Okay bestie, let's talk about aklog-kafs 💅 It's the AFS Kerberos authentication tool, and it is literally the thing that gets you a ticket so the in-kernel AFS filesystem (kAFS) can do authenticated, encrypted access to an AFS cell. Without it? Only unencrypted anonymous access 🙈 not it.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

aklog-kafs [-dhkV] [<cell> [<realm>]]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so this program grabs an authentication ticket from Kerberos that kAFS can use to do authenticated and encrypted accesses to an AFS cell. Main character energy ✨ Without it, you're stuck with unencrypted anonymous accesses, and that's giving nothing 💀

Before you run this, lowkey make sure you've invoked the kinit program (or something similar) to authenticate with the right Kerberos server 🔑 Get that set up first, periodt.

🧚 ARGUMENTS 🧚

• <cell> 🍓 This is the name of the cell the ticket is meant for. If you don't pass one, it'll read the default cell name from /proc/net/afs/rootcell and use that instead 🫶

The root cell can be set in the /etc/kafs/client config file by setting thiscell in the [defaults] section. Now, if you change the thiscell value in that config file, you need to run kafs-preload so the value in /proc/net/afs/rootcell gets refreshed. Don't skip this part, bestie 😭

• <realm> 👑 This is the name of the Kerberos realm the ticket will be obtained from 🌈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -h — Shows the help text and exits. Bye bye 👋
• -d — Displays processing messages. Use -d more than once and the messages get even more verbose 🔥
• -k — Lets you manually pick which keyring the AFS key goes into 🦋 If you don't, it'll check for a session keyring first, and if it can't find one, it switches over to the uid-session keyring. Valid values are:
  • session
  • uid-session
• -V — Shows the version and exits 💜

🍓 EXAMPLE 🍓

# aklog-kafs -d
Default cell from /proc/net/afs/rootcell: ca-zephyr.org
Realm: CA-ZEPHYR.ORG
CELL ca-zephyr.org
PRINC afs/ca-zephyr.org@CA-ZEPHYR.ORG
successfully added key: 44095043 to session keyring

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

kinit(1), keyctl (1), kafs-preload (8), kafs-client.conf(5) ✨

🫶 COPYRIGHT 🫶

Copyright (C) 2018 Red Hat, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 💖

Written by David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> 👑

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. 🦋

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