1 [[!meta title="Binary Packages Available from Third Parties"]]
2 # Binary Packages Available from Third Parties #
4 While OpenAFS.org packages up binary releases of OpenAFS, third parties may also release their own binary packages of OpenAFS. This page is an attempt to collect, in one place, various third party binary packages. Keep in mind that the packages would be supported by the third party and not openafs.org. However, you can still ask the OpenAFS community with questions about how and why things do or do not work.
6 ### Fedora and CentOS7/RHEL7 ###
8 #### JSBillings Fedora Copr ####
10 Repackaged using sources from http://www.openafs.org/. Does not use the spec file included there, but a slimmer package that uses non-transarc paths.
12 Does not support Linux Kernel 4.5 or newer.
14 * [OpenAFS](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jsbillings/openafs/)
15 * [OpenAFS-KMod](https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/jsbillings/openafs-kmod/)
19 Sine Nomine Associates digitally signed OpenAFS 1.6.x Installers:
21 * [OpenAFS 1.6.20 for MacOS 10.11](http://download.sinenomine.net/openafs/bins/1.6.20/macos-10.11/)
22 * [OpenAFS 1.6.20 for MacOS 10.12](http://download.sinenomine.net/openafs/bins/1.6.20/macos-10.12/)
23 * [OpenAFS 1.6.21 for MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra)](http://download.sinenomine.net/openafs/bins/1.6.21.1/macos-10.13/)
25 #### Release Notes for Sine Nomine Packages ####
27 The disk images provided here provide support for recent Mac OS X
28 versions, including provisional support for System Integrity Protection
29 (aka "rootless") on 10.11.
31 Included is an experimental change to the client to support the
32 additional security verification of 10.11, where programs using the
33 native "Cocoa" API will ask various root daemons (taskgated,
34 DesktopServicesHelper, syspolicyd, possibly others depending on
35 configuration) to verify files for them; these daemons do not have
36 access to the user's token, and would normally fail verification as a
37 result. This change means that root can read any AFS-resident file that
38 is locally cached without a token. While this is technically a security
39 violation, it should be noted that all versions of IBM AFS and OpenAFS
40 already allow root (or, with lax cache permissions, potentially any
41 user) to read any locally cached file by accessing the cache directory
42 directly. Thus, the risk this introduces is no greater than the risks
43 already carried by sites using AFS.
45 Programs using the BSD APIs do not use the root daemons and work as
46 expected, unless you run a signed binary from OpenAFS, in which case
47 taskgated will attempt to verify the binary's signature and internal
48 requirements and entitlements; this again requires the above root
51 On 10.11, client commands are installed to /opt/openafs/bin instead of
52 /usr/bin. The system path database is modified to add this directory to
53 the $PATH of new sessions. Running sessions after initial installation
54 of the client will need to add /opt/openafs/bin to their $PATH
57 The change to enable root to perform security checks appears to have
58 introduced an occasional issue where tab completion in a directory will
59 not work unless the directory's contents has previously been listed
60 (e.g. with "ls"). While the security checks are only performed on
61 10.11, the root access code path is active in all of the clients, so
62 this will also occur on 10.9 and 10.10. We are still working on
63 diagnosing the cause, and will provide an updated release when it is
64 available. In testing, this issue has proven uncommon and transient for
67 NOTE: The preference pane remains deprecated in this version of the
68 client. Sine Nomine is working on addressing problems in the preference
69 pane for future versions.