- encrypted passwords no longer need to be visible
- You don't have to use NIS, aka yellow pages, to distribute /etc/passwd - thus "ypcat passwd" can be eliminated.
- - If you do choose to use NIS, you can replace the password field with "X" so the encrypted password is not visible. (These issues are discussed in detail in [25]).
+ - If you do choose to use NIS, you can replace the password field with "X" so the encrypted password is not visible. (These issues are discussed in detail in [[[AdminGuide|Main/FurtherReading#AdminGuide]]]).
- AFS uses mutual authentication - both the service provider and service requester prove their identities
#### <a name="1.05.i Communications protocol"></a> 1.05.i Communications protocol
-AFS communications protocol is optimized for Wide Area Networks. Retransmitting only the single bad packet in a batch of packets and allowing the number of unacknowledged packets to be higher (than in other protocols, see [4]).
+AFS communications protocol is optimized for Wide Area Networks. Retransmitting only the single bad packet in a batch of packets and allowing the number of unacknowledged packets to be higher (than in other protocols, see [[[Johnson90|Main/FurtherReading#Johnson90]]]).
#### <a name="1.05.j Improved system manageme"></a> 1.05.j Improved system management capability
Transarc's implementation of Kerberos is slightly different from MIT Kerberos V4 but AFS can work with either version. Joe Jackson wrote about this in: <http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/andrew.cmu.edu/usr/shadow/www/afs/afs-with-kerberos.html>
-For more detail on this and other Kerberos issues see the faq for Kerberos (posted to news.answers and comp.protocols.kerberos) [28]. (Also, see [15], [16], [26], [27])
+For more detail on this and other Kerberos issues see the faq for Kerberos (posted to news.answers and comp.protocols.kerberos) [[[Jaspan|Main/FurtherReading#Jaspan]]]. (Also, see [[[Miller87|Main/FurtherReading#Miller87]]], [[[Bryant88|Main/FurtherReading#Bryant88]]], [[[Bellovin90|Main/FurtherReading#Bellovin90]]], [[[Steiner88|Main/FurtherReading#Steiner88]]])
### <a name="1.09 Does AFS work over protoco"></a> 1.09 Does AFS work over protocols other than TCP/IP?