MacAthena

The MacAthena project is working to bring the functionality of the Athena system to your Mac OS X Tiger or Leopard system.

MacAthena is a project of SIPB. If you have questions or comments, please contact the MacAthena maintainers.

Goals

Eventually, the MacAthena project would like to offer:

• Full command-line compatability with Linux Athena
• Cocoa applications to provide easier to use interfaces to common Athena tasks
• A package based system allowing MacAthena users to setup anything from a few utilities to a system with Kerberos-based logins and AFS home directories
• Support in common lockers, providing MacAthena users with access to the wealth of software available in AFS

Installing MacAthena

What We Have

At this point, we have the following major features:

Available By Installing macathena-basic

• /mit automounter—Access AFS lockers simply accessing paths of the form /mit/locker, eliminating the need to actually attach lockers.
• add
• Moira clients—including blanche, stella, and moira

Available By Installing macathena-standard (in addition to the packages from macathena-basic)

Many of these commands are not frequently used, but some locker programs depend on their presence

• athinfo
• delete
• discuss
• get-cluster
• just
• machtype