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This is the initial conversion of the AFS Adminstrators Reference into POD for use as man pages. The man pages are now generated via pod2man from regen.sh so that only those working from CVS have to have pod2man available. The Makefile only installs. The pages have also been sorted out into pod1, pod5, and pod8 directories, making conversion to the right section of man page easier without maintaining a separate list and allowing for names to be duplicated between pod5 and pod1 or pod8 (which will likely be needed in a few cases). This reconversion is done with a new script based on work by Chas Williams. In some cases, the output is worse than the previous POD pages, but this is a more comprehensive conversion. This is only the first step, and this initial conversion has various problems. In addition, the file man pages that didn't have simple names have not been converted in this pass and will be added later. Some of the man pages have syntax problems and all of them have formatting errors. The next editing pass, coming shortly, will clean up most of the remaining mess.
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=head1 NAME
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kaserver.DB0 and kaserver.DBSYS1 - Contain the Authentication Database and associated log
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=head1 DESCRIPTION
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The kaserver.DB0 file contains the Authentication
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Database, which records server encryption keys and an encrypted form of all
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user passwords. The Authentication Server (B<kaserver> process)
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uses the information in the database to enable secured communications between
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AFS server and client processes.
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The kaserver.DBSYS1 file is a log file in which the
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Authentication Server logs each database operation before performing
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it. When an operation is interrupted, the Authentication Server replays
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the log to complete the operation.
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Both files are in binary format and reside in the /usr/afs/db
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directory on each of the cell's database server machines. When the
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Authentication Server starts or restarts on a given machine, it establishes a
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connection with its peers and verifies that its copy of the database matches
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the copy on the other database server machines. If not, the
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Authentication Servers call on AFS's distributed database technology,
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Ubik, to distribute to all of the machines the copy of the database with the
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highest version number.
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Always use the commands in the kas suite to administer the
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Authentication Database. It is advisable to create an archive copy of
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the database on a regular basis, using a tool such as the UNIX B<tar>
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command.
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=head1 SEE ALSO
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L<kadb_check(1)>,
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L<kas(1)>,
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L<kaserver(1)>
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=head1 COPYRIGHT
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IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.
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This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was
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converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ
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Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell.
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