AFS is a distributed filesystem product, pioneered at Carnegie Mellon University and supported and developed as a product by Transarc Corporation (now IBM Pittsburgh Labs). It offers a client-server architecture for file sharing, providing location independence, scalability, security, and
... [More] transparent migration capabilities for data.
IBM branched the source of the AFS product, and made a copy of the source available for community development and maintenance. They called the release OpenAFS. [Less]
Heimdal is an implementation of Kerberos 5, largely written in Sweden (which was important when we started writing it, less so now). It is freely available under a three clause BSD style license.
Network Identity Manager (NetIdMgr) allows end users to manage multiple network identifies from within a single easy to use interface. NetIdMgr is extensible, enabling organizations to add support for various types of identification providers and the ability to derive new forms from the user's
... [More] initial credentials. For example, MIT Kerberos for Windows 3.0 and future versions of OpenAFS for Windows use NetIdMgr with a Kerberos 5 identity provider.
Credential provider plug-ins for Kerberos 5 and Kerberos 4 tickets manage the identification properties as well as the ticket acquisition and renewal process.
A credential provider plug-in for AFS tokens is distributed by the OpenAFS project.
A credential provider for kx509/kca certificates is distributed by the KCACred project. [Less]
afs-monitor provides Nagios-compatible probe scripts that can be used to monitor AFS servers. It contains five scripts: check_afs_quotas, which monitors AFS volumes for quota usage; check_afs_space, which monitors file server partitions for disk usage; check_afs_bos, which monitors any
... [More] bosserver-managed set of processes for problems reported by bos; check_afs_rxdebug, which monitors AFS fileservers for connections waiting for a thread; and check_afs_udebug, which monitors Ubik services (such as vlserver and ptserver) for replication and quorum problems. [Less]
Secure Endpoints Inc. is distributing a Kerberized Certificate Authority provider that can be used to automatically obtain X.509 client certificates when Kerberos v5 credentials are obtained or renewed. The KCA provider is bundled with a PKCS#11 module that exports certificates from the Windows
... [More] Certificate Store to applications such as Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird. [Less]
Kermit is the name of a file-transfer and -management protocol and a suite of computer programs for many types of computers that implements that protocol as well as other communication functions ranging from terminal emulation to automation of communications tasks through a high-level cross-platform
... [More] scripting language. The software is transport-independent, operating over TCP/IP connections in traditional clear-text mode or secured by SSH, SSL/TLS, or Kerberos IV or V, as well as over serial-port connections, modems, and other communication methods (X.25, DECnet, various LAN protocols such as NETBIOS and LAT, parallel ports, etc, on particular platforms). [Less]
libstrsafe is a cross platform implementation of the Safe String Library (StrSafe.h) provided by Microsoft. The library will allow multi platform software to use a single library for safe string operations. This will reduce the risk for buffer overflows and will increase code sharing between code for different platforms.
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