Re: Irritating feature of afs login

[Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre]

> Is this a hack? I have the MIT Kerberos login which came with the V4
> patch 10 distribution, and while I had intended to hack it to do aklog,
> I hadn't seen a version which already did... Or is this the DECathena
> version?

DECathena login runs attach, the MIT tool which mounts the a user's
locker, before trying to get at the user's home directory. If attach
finds (via Hesiod and the Moira database) that the user is in AFS, it
runs aklog. As far as I am aware, the functionality of running
attach/aklog is a part of MIT login; DECathena login is not that different.

Since our users are in AFS, attach's only useful function is to run
aklog, so our local version of attach is just a shell script which runs
aklog, amongst other things.

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