Project Norton

We asked Goddess if She, like God, had an Only Begotten Son. She assured us that She did and gave His name as Emperor Norton I - whom we assumed was probably some Byzantine ruler of Constantinople. Dilligent research eventually turned up the historical Norton, as we call Him, in the holy city of San Francisco - where He walked his faithful dog along Market Street scarcely more than a century ago.

-- Kerry Thornley, introduction to the 5th Edition of the Principa Discordia

Background

Heavily inspired by Project Vincent at Iowa State University (which was inspired by Project Athena at MIT), a system for managing a collection of systems centrally, and sharing resources amongst them (things like common logons, shared filesystems, etc). Probably more complicated than I need, but hey, it's fun to tinker with.

Various Bits

Kerberos
Hesiod/ldap
AFS

AfsOnNetBSD -- getting AFS working on NetBSD 2.0

imap
cfengine setup of client machines
authorization service
Sane postfix configuration
central db of service/user/etc info --- SMS