Re: AFS administration "wrapper"

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Wed, 18 Sep 1996 17:45:25 -0400 (EDT)  "Brian W. Spolarich" wrote:

> On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> 
> > Yes.  I've defined a rule that says that all members of groups named
> > "release:<volumename>" can release <volumename>.  I also allow the group 
> > "release" (or its members, really) to release *any* volume.  I can
> > forward the scheme code to this if you like.
> > 
> > There are some drawbacks to this approach.  Namely it requires giving one
> > access to release any volume in the cell, or creating a separate group for
> > each volume.  Since you can't have nested groups, this is administratively
> > inconvenient.  This is one of the main reasons why I wish to rewrite this
> > system.  To support more flexibility configurable database is really needed