| 5 | | - What is Athena? (briefly) |
| 6 | | - AFS homedir, dialup, cluster, mail/lists, kerberos, LDAP, moira |
| 7 | | - An overview of the technology behind Debathena, including things like: |
| 8 | | - chroots |
| 9 | | - the update system |
| 10 | | - hesiod/NSS/PAM |
| | 6 | - Brief Athena Technical Overview |
| | 7 | * [wiki:Kerberos] (the primary authentication system used) |
| | 8 | * [wiki:AFS] (the global distributed file system where most data, including home directories, is stored) |
| | 9 | * [wiki:Hesiod] (the name service used for user names, group names, locker names, and more) |
| | 10 | * [wiki:NSS] ("Name Service Switch", allowing Linux systems to use multiple sources (e.g. /etc/passwd, Hesiod, LDAP) of information for system "names") |
| | 11 | * NssNonlocal |
| | 12 | * [wiki:PAM] ("Pluggable Authentication Modules") |
| | 13 | * [wiki:Lockers] |
