NAME

       NoAuth - Disables authorization checking

DESCRIPTION

       The NoAuth file, if present in a server machine's /var/lib/openafs/local directory,
       indicates to the AFS server processes running on the machine that it is not necessary to
       perform authorization checking. They perform any action for any user who logs into the
       machine's local file system or issues a remote command that affects the machine's AFS
       server functioning, such as commands from the AFS command suites. Because failure to check
       authorization exposes the machine's AFS server functionality to attack, there are normally
       only two circumstances in which the file is present:

       •   During installation of the machine, as instructed in the OpenAFS Quick Start Guide.

       •   During correction of a server encryption key emergency, as discussed in the OpenAFS
           Administration Guide.

       In all other circumstances, the absence of the file means that the AFS server processes
       perform authorization checking, verifying that the issuer of a command has the required
       privilege.

       Create the file in one of the following ways:

       •   By issuing the bosserver initialization command with the -noauth flag, if the Basic
           OverSeer (BOS) Server is not already running.

       •   By issuing the bos setauth command with off as the value for the -authrequired
           argument, if the BOS Server is already running.

       To remove the file, issue the bos setauth command with "on" as the value for the
       -authrequired argument.

       The file's contents, if any, are ignored; an empty (zero-length) file is effective.

SEE ALSO

       bos_setauth(8), bosserver(8)

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