Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
> It is possible to achieve what you want with ADM. It requires writing
> some scheme code. This is what we currently use at QUALCOMM. I have
> some problems with this approach (I'm the only one at our site that
> knows scheme!), and I will be producing a C based solution using a
> database of permissions in the not-too-distant future. We may decide
> to release my work to the AFS community, but no guarantees just yet.
>
> -- Garrett.
>
> On Mon, 16 Sep 1996 18:51:46 -0400 (EDT) "Brian W. Spolarich" wrote:
>
> >
> > I've heard mention of a tool that will enable cell admins to securely
> > delegate cell administration privileges to sets of users. For example, I
> > might have group volumes that have read-only replicas, and I want the
> > users who manage those volumes to be able to "vos release" them on demand
> > without having them be in system:administrators.
> >
> > I've grabbed EMT (Environment Maintenance Tool) from
> > andrew2.andrew.cmu.edu, which looks like it might be the thing, but it
> > looks pretty andrew-specific. It wants depot, the ADM server, and other
> > stuff which I don't necessarily need.
> >
> > Have I found what I'm looking for? If not, does anyone know where I
> > might find such a tool?
> >
> > -brian
> >
> > --
> > Brian W. Spolarich - ANS - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (313)677-7311
> > Look both ways before crossing the Net.
> >
> >
> >
I spent a considerable amount of time getting ADM to run a few years
back. I think I was most disappointed over the fact that Transarc does
not document changes to the AFS lib API's. I got burned when we moved
from AFS 3.3 to 3.3A.
Anyway, two alternatives to adm are sysctl and now ssh. You may want
to look at them before investing any of your own effort. Both are more
Kerberos 4 generic and thus usable in other situations.
BTW, I moved on to DCE/DFS a while back and have found depot to still be
a killing tool!
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