MacAthena

Welcome to MacAthena

The MacAthena project is working to bring the functionality of the Athena system to your Mac OS X Tiger, Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mojave, or Catalina machine.

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

Installing MacAthena

The instructions to install MacAthena are on a separate page.

Goals

Eventually, the MacAthena project would like to offer:

Full command-line compatibility with Linux Athena
Cocoa applications to provide easy-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

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

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

athinfo
delete
discuss
get-cluster
just
machtype

FAQ

Q: Package xyz that I really care about isn't in MacAthena! Why not?

A: Well, it's possible we just haven't tried to port it yet, or maybe we haven't gotten it to work. We keep a list of packages we're having a hard time porting.