(Andrew File System)

In order to make the Fermi Linux install and upgrades much easier I have made rpms that will install and configure an AFS client on a Linux machine. This web page is to try and help folks learn about these rpm's.
If you want to learn more about how these rpm's came to be, you can go to the brief history of AFS on linux at Fermilab page.

AFS on Fermi Linux 5.x

We never fully supported AFS on Fermi Linux 5.x (5.0 and 5.2). This was because neither of these distributions came with a 2.2 kernel, and AFS only works with 2.2 kernels and above. But we did make an rpm for those folks who upgraded their kernels and wanted AFS.

afs-fermi-3.5-1.i386.rpm

AFS on Fermi Linux 6.x

We have supported Transarcs AFS on all the distributions of Fermi Linux 6.x. The current release is below. It generally works quite well, and only have problems when switching to a new kernel. But at the moment we are quite stable.

afs-fermi-3.6-10.i386.rpm

AFS on Fermi Linux 7.x

To keep this page short and concise, I've divided this section into two, more indepth pages.

• Fermi Linux 7x - What and How to Install AFS
• Fermi Linux 7x - Installing with multiple or custom kernels
• Get the 7.1.1 rpm's from here
• Get the 7.3.1 rpm's from here

This is perhaps the hardest part of AFS, figuring out how to do authorizing during login's. Linux uses pam modules and so do we.
For all of the Fermi Linux releases, up to 7.3.1, we had to configure the various pam configuration files. We did this via an rpm. Each workgroup had to figure out how they wanted their users to log into their machines and they made sure the appropriate afs-pam rpm was installed.
To look at what sort of solutions we currently have you can go to the afs-pam-rpms page.
Fermi Linux 7.3.1 was the first release where we didn't have to do this, because everything was kerberized, and the aklog with kerberos would get you your afs tokens when logging in.