Cluedump - October 17, 2012

Introduction

• Brief Athena Technical Overview
• Kerberos (the primary authentication system used)
  • AFS (the global distributed file system where most data, including home directories, is stored)
  • Hesiod (the name service used for user names, group names, locker names, and more)
  • NSS ("Name Service Switch", allowing Linux systems to use multiple sources (e.g. /etc/passwd, Hesiod, LDAP) of information for system "names")
    • NssNonlocal
  • PAM ("Pluggable Authentication Modules")
  • Lockers

Debian Packaging

• WhatIsAPackage
• GettingStartedWithDevelopment
  • Install required packages and set up your build environment)
• AnatomyOfAPackage
  • What files are needed for a package, what do they contain, etc.
• BuildingAPackage
  • Actually building the package
• CaffeinatedSubversion
  • Subversion and the repository layout
• ConfigPackageDev
• Examples
  • debathena-gconf2-wrapper
  • debathena-bugme