openafs/doc/man-pages/pod5/kaserverauxdb.pod
Russ Allbery af1dbcf0c9 Add warnings for Authentication Server commands
For each command only useful with the Authentication Server, add
warnings that the Authentication Server is obsolete and will be
removed in a future version of OpenAFS.  Encourage people who care
to update uss to work with a modern Kerberos KDC, recommend kinit
and aklog or klog.krb5 over klog, and warn that klog will be of
limited use without an Authentication Server.

Change-Id: Idc78ba548134b83ac1eea0fb81a5bc38a431bb38
Reviewed-on: http://gerrit.openafs.org/2052
Reviewed-by: Derrick Brashear <shadow@dementia.org>
Tested-by: Derrick Brashear <shadow@dementia.org>
2010-05-31 20:40:58 -07:00

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=head1 NAME
kaserverauxdb - Records failed authentication attempts
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The file F<kaserverauxdb> records failed authentication attempts for the
local Authentication Server. The server creates it automatically in the
F</usr/afs/local> directory by default; use the B<-localfiles> argument to
the B<kaserver> command to specify an alternate directory.
The F<kaserverauxdb> file is an internal database used by the
Authentication Server to prevent access by users who have exceeded the
limit on failed authentication attempts defined in their Authentication
Database entry. The Authentication Server refuses further attempts to
authenticate to an account listed in the database until either an AFS
system administrator issues the B<kas unlock> command to unlock the
account, or the timeout period defined in the user's Authentication
Database entry passes.
The F<kaserverauxdb> file is in binary format, so its contents are not
directly accessible. However, the output from the B<kas examine> command
reports an account's maximum number of failed attempts, the lockout time,
and whether the account is currently locked.
=head1 CAUTIONS
The Authentication Server is obsolete and is provided only for sites that
need to use it while preparing for a migration to Kerberos KDC. It will be
removed in a future version of OpenAFS.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<kaserver.DB0(5)>,
L<kas_examine(8)>,
L<kas_unlock(8)>,
L<kaserver(8)>
=head1 COPYRIGHT
IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> 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.