Excerpts from Mail: Wed, 22 Sep 1993 20:45:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl L. Swartz)
Subject: Re: AFS tools
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; from
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" at Sep 21, 93 10:54 am
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Mitterer) writes:
> > > I'm looking for a tool that will allow a certain group or user to
> > > issue privileged commands (i.e vos create and remove ) on a particular
> > > server and vice partition.
>
> > That would be ADM, developed by David VanRyzin of Carnegie Mellon.
> > The tool was introduced at a recent AFS User's Group meeting. It can
> > be customized using a simple Scheme-like language.
>
> It looks interesting, but is there any usable documentation for this
> thing? I managed to build it and I can do some simple stuff with it,
> but what documentation there is is sparse, and occasionally just plain
> wrong.
I can't image trying to use ADM by itself in a production environment.
Also available is a utility Environment Maintenance Tool (EMT) authored by
David Markley of Carnegie Mellon which has a tty interface,
authenticates the user, and sends Scheme commands via RPC to an ADM server.
EMT commands are devoted to depot collection management and depot environment
management.
We (alw.nih.gov) have found EMT promising, but lacking an interface that
can be safely used by general users in our cell who want to administer their
own depot collections. To remedy this, I have been working on an X-windows
interface for EMT. I'll be at AFSUG in Pittsburg and would be happy to discuss
this work in progress with anyone interested.
-- sandy
Sandy Orlow (Systex, Inc.) phone: (301) 402-1533
Building 12A, Room 2013 uucp: uunet!sandy%alw.nih.gov
National Institutes of Health Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bethesda, MD 20892 FAX: (301) 402-2867
