AFS::PAG 1.01
(Perl bindings for AFS PAG manipulation)
Written by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
Copyright 2013 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior
University. This software is distributed under a BSD-style license.
Please see the section LICENSE below for more information.
BLURB
AFS::PAG provides the standard PAG and token manipulation functions
setpag and unlog to Perl programs as a native module. It also provides
the hasafs and haspag functions to detect whether AFS is running and
whether the current process is in a PAG. Unlike the more general AFS
module, it will build with any recent OpenAFS, Heimdal's libkafs, or on
Linux without any AFS libraries at all.
DESCRIPTION
AFS is a distributed file system allowing cross-platform sharing of
files among multiple computers. It associates client credentials
(called AFS tokens) with a Process Authentication Group, or PAG.
AFS::PAG makes available in Perl the PAG manipulation functions provided
by the libkafs or libkopenafs libraries.
With the functions provided by this module, a Perl program can detect
whether AFS is available on the local system and whether it is currently
running inside a PAG. It can also create a new PAG and put the current
process in it, and remove any AFS tokens in the current PAG.
This module doesn't provide a direct way to obtain new AFS tokens, only
to create a new PAG so that any obtained tokens are isolated from other
processes on the system and can be inherited by child processes.
REQUIREMENTS
Perl 5.10.1 or later, the Config::AutoConf module, and a C compiler are
required to build this module. On any platform other than Linux, either
the kafs library (from Heimdal) or the kopenafs library (from recent
versions of OpenAFS) are also required.
The following additional Perl modules will be used by the test suite if
present:
IPC::System::Simple
Test::MinimumVersion
Test::Perl::Critic
Test::Pod
Test::Pod::Coverage
Test::Spelling
Test::Strict
Test::Synopsis
All are available on CPAN. Those tests will be skipped if the modules
are not available.
To enable tests that may be sensitive to the local environment or that
produce a lot of false positives without uncovering many problems, set
RRA_MAINTAINER_TESTS to a true value.
BUILDING AND INSTALLATION
AFS::PAG uses Module::Build and can be installed using the same process
as any other Module::Build module:
perl Build.PL
./Build
./Build test
./Build install
If your libkafs or libkopenafs libraries are in a path that's not
searched by your linker by default, pass them to Build.PL using the
--extra-linker-flags option, as in:
perl Build.PL --extra-linker-flags '-L/opt/openafs/lib'
You will have to run the last command as root unless you're installing
into a local Perl module tree in your home directory.
SUPPORT
The AFS::PAG web page at:
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/afs-pag/
will always have the current version of this package, the current
documentation, and pointers to any additional resources.
For bug tracking, this package uses the CPAN bug tracker at:
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=AFS-PAG
I welcome bug reports and patches for this package at rra@stanford.edu
or via the CPAN bug tracker. However, please be aware that I tend to be
extremely busy and work projects often take priority. I'll save your
mail and get to it as soon as I can, but it may take me a couple of
months.
SOURCE REPOSITORY
AFS::PAG is maintained using Git. You can access the current source by
cloning the repository at:
git://git.eyrie.org/afs/afs-pag.git
or view the repository via the web at:
http://git.eyrie.org/?p=afs/afs-pag.git
When contributing modifications, either patches (possibly generated by
git format-patch) or Git pull requests are welcome.
LICENSE
The AFS::PAG package as a whole is covered by the following copyright
statement and license:
Copyright 2013
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
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