F22: how to mount AFS directory?

Frank Elsner frank at moltke28.b.shuttle.de
Wed Aug 26 06:31:16 UTC 2015


On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 18:19:05 -0500 Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how to mount an AFS filesystem (I think it is called an Andrews' Filesystem) on Fedora 22? 
> 
> I looked around on the web, but did not come up with anything that worked so I thought that I would ask for some advice.

Authentication for AFS  is done by Kerberos. Furthermore you need an AFS token.

So the sequence of commands at my university is

       kinit
       aklog

Afterwards I've access to the directories behind /afs.

"man kinit" and "man aklog" recommended for further reading.

> Thank you for any help you are able to provide!

HTH, Frank


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