=head1 NAME NoAuth - Disables authorization checking =head1 DESCRIPTION The F file, if present in a server machine's F directory, indicates to the AFS server processes running on the machine that it is not necessary to perform authorization checking. They perform any action for any user who logs into the machine's local file system or issues a remote command that affects the machine's AFS server functioning, such as commands from the AFS command suites. Because failure to check authorization exposes the machine's AFS server functionality to attack, this file should never be created. It was once necessary to use NoAuth when initializing a new cell, but B<-localauth> and other tooling means that new cells can be running securely from the start. As such, this file is just a historical vestige. The absence of the file means that the AFS server processes perform authorization checking, verifying that the issuer of a command has the required privilege. Create the file in one of the following ways: =over 4 =item * By issuing the bosserver initialization command with the B<-noauth> flag, if the Basic OverSeer (BOS) Server is not already running. =item * By issuing the B command with off as the value for the B<-authrequired> argument, if the BOS Server is already running. =back To remove the file, issue the B command with C as the value for the B<-authrequired> argument. The file's contents, if any, are ignored; an empty (zero-length) file is effective. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L =head1 COPYRIGHT IBM Corporation 2000. All Rights Reserved. This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.