In message <9409071555.AA11760@zeus>you write:
>Now that they're deciding what features to add to afs 3.5, is there
>anyone else who'd concur with our cell in suggesting they split off
>the privileges to run vos and backup commands from privileges to
>run bos commands? I really hate the idea of giving someone
>access/root on our servers when I only want to give them the power
>to release read-only volumes. (i.e. perhaps a BosList file too)
>
I agree with this completely. Another thing I'd suggest is
that the vos remove command not need a server and partition
specified. The information is available in the volume database
and should be looked up by the software unless specified. I'm
not saying remove the -server and -partition options. I'm
saying they should be optional. To me, doing the following
to just remove a volume and its mount point is a bit ludicrous:
fs exa mount_point
vos exa volumeID_found_from_above_command
vos remove server partition volumeID
fs rmmount mount_point
I've written a script in Perl to do all of this (I posted it
a few weeks ago here and to alt.filesystems.afs), but...
