Distributed Services with OpenAFS: for Enterprise and Education

by Franco Milicchio, Wolfgang Alexander Gehrke

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642071720
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	11/10/2010
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Pages:	395
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Franco Milicchio is currently at the Department of

Computer Science and Automation at the University Roma Tre, Italy. He

graduated in computer engineering at the same university.

Wolfgang A. Gehrke has worked the last five years as a system

administrator at the Department of Computer Science and Automation

at the University Roma Tre, Italy. He holds a PhD in theoretical

computer science from the University Linz, Austria.

Table of Contents

The Beginning.- The Beginning.- Core Services.- Foundations.- Kerberos V.- LDAP.- OpenAFS.- Samba.- Pushing the Core Services.- Further Services.- Web Server.- Electronic Mail.- Newsgroups.- PostgreSQL Database.- Further Web Applications.- Applications.- Client Systems.- Clustering.- Laboratories.- Collaborative Software.- Where To Go From Here.

Editorial Reviews

Aus den Rezensionen:

"… Das Hardcover befasst sich mit der Entwicklung skalierbarer und sicherer Anwendungen auf der Basis von OpenAFS. Es präsentiert die Kernbestandteile, die auf Kerberos, LDAP, AFS oder Samba aufbauen und verdeutlicht, wie man OpenAFS in andere Systeme integrieren kann. Auch Single Sign On für verschiedene Client-Plattformen und Clustering wird unterstützt. Lobenswert ist die Zusammenstellung weiterführender Ressourcen im Web." (in: IT-Mittelstand, 2007, Issue 11, S. 48)

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