Terry,
It sounds like you have home directories stored outside of AFS. By
using "klog whoever -cell asset.com", I contact your AFS fileservers
and mutually authenticate with them. This has nothing to do with the
aix/unix home directory, but only provides authenticated access to the
files under /afs/asset.com.
In our cell, everyone has their home directory stored in AFS. So,
provided suitable access control lists were in place, you could
authenticate to our cell and look at what I use as my home directory.
In order to find out that my home directory is called
/afs/transarc.com/usr/jackson, you either have to guess or look at one
of our password files. A common convention is for all AFS client
machines in a cell to use a copy of /afs/<cell>/common/etc/passwd as
the /etc/passwd file.
The AFS commands (such as pts and kas) provide no way to map KAS
user-ids to home directories, or even to full names. The traditional
/etc/passwd file is still used for this purpose.
Joe Jackson,
AFS Product Support,
Transarc Corp.
