The purpose of this article is to give you a straight-forward, Debian-friendly way of installing and configuring OpenAFS 1.4.x, the recommended production version of OpenAFS for UNIX. By the end of this guide, you will have a functional OpenAFS installation that will complete our solution for secure, centralized network logins with shared home directories.
Traditionally, Unix/Linux/POSIX filenames can be almost any sequence of bytes, and their meaning is unassigned. The only real rules are that "/" is always the directory separator, and that filenames can't contain byte 0 (because this is the terminator). Although this is flexible, this creates many unnecessary problems. In particular, this lack of limitations makes it unnecessarily difficult to write correct programs (enabling many security flaws), makes it impossible to consistently and accurately display filenames, causes portability problems, and confuses users. more ....
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