AUTHLOG.DIR(5)

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💖 AUTHLOG.DIR(5) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for AuthLog.dir and AuthLog.pag — literally the log of Authentication Server privileged operations. yes, both of them. they're a matched set. periodt. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

AuthLog.dir, AuthLog.pag — the Log of Authentication Server privileged operations, aka the receipts folder for the kaserver's most main-character moments. 👑

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so the AuthLog.dir and AuthLog.pag files are out here recording a trace of privileged operations performed by the Authentication Server — that's the kaserver process, iykyk — on the local machine. it's giving security camera but make it binary. 🎀

and like, if these files don't exist when the Authentication Server starts? it just creates them in the /var/openafs/logs directory as necessary. no big deal, it handles it. self-sufficient queen behavior fr fr. ✨

ngl though, the files are in binary format, so you can't just open them up and read them like a normal person. to display their contents, use the kdb command — and that requires being logged in to the local machine as the local superuser "root". so yeah, root access required, no cap. 🙈

💀 CAUTIONS 💀

okay bestie, this is the part where we get serious for a sec, because there's some real stuff here. 😭

  • the Authentication Server is obsolete and is provided only for sites that need to use it while preparing for a migration to Kerberos KDC. it will be removed in a future version of OpenAFS. so like... it's on its way out. we're all just living in its final era. 💀
  • the Authentication Server is possibly unable to create these files on some operating systems that AFS otherwise supports — which makes the kdb command inoperative. so the whole thing could just... not work. on some systems. messy. 🫠

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

  • kaserver(8)
  • kdb(8)

go read those too, bestie, they're the supporting cast. 🌈

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