Linux/Project Vincent HOWTO

Steve Langasek

DoddsNET Systems Group

vorlon@dodds.net

Revision History
Revision 0.3v 0.3, 21 Mar 2000Revised by: srl - vorlon@dodds.net
Added section on zephyr and instant messaging
Revision 0.2v 0.2, 15 Mar 2000Revised by: srl - vorlon@dodds.net
Updated information for the aafugit.org ftp site
Revision 0.1v 0.1, 1 Mar 2000Revised by: srl - vorlon@dodds.net
Initial revision

This document provides a step-by-step guide to integrating a Linux workstation into Iowa State University's Project Vincent.


Linux/Project Vincent HOWTO

1 Introduction

1.1 Purpose

1.2 Assumptions

1.3 Disclaimer

1.4 Feedback

2 Before You Begin

2.1 Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)

2.2 Name Service Switch (NSS)

2.3 Autofs/Automount

3 Authentication

3.1 Getting Kerberos IV

3.2 Configuring Kerberos IV

3.3 pam_krb4

4. System information: Hesiod

4.1 What is Hesiod?

4.2 Installing Hesiod

4.3 Configuring NSS

5 Mounting home directories

5.1 Installing and configuring arla

5.2 Starting arla

5.3 Configuring pam_afstok

5.4 Configuring autofs for Hesiod lockers

6 Instant/Messaging/Presence: Zephyr

6.1 Architecture overview

6.2 Installing Zephyr

6.3 Running Zephyr

7 Printing with LPRng