> But seriously, this shouldn't affect the list of mountpoints in root.afs
> at all - they're completely separate. Hell, you don't even need to have
> a cell in CellServDB to create a mountpoint:
>
> % ln -s #no.such.cell:no.volume. mountpoint
Or...
fs mkm mountpoint no.such.cell:no.volume -fast
> >You also haven't dealt with access control. Some sites have private
> >cells they won't want to advertise. And some other sites might not
> >want to make all cells available to their users. Having a fixed
> >list of mountpoints in root.afs makes this sort of thing easier.
>
> I would hope that people understand that not advertising their AFS cell
> is the worst sort of security through obscurity :-) But for these people,
Especially with people around who semi-actively search for and collect
information about AFS cells.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems Programmer, CMU SCS Research Facility
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