In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Rol and Kuhn writes: >My point is: What would you want to do with this identifier? What is >it needed for? Which operations are made possible by knowing this >identifier?
afs operations are authenticated by using your uid or the pag. the pag or uid is converting (using a hash) to a data structure which contains your afs token. some people need finer (or perhaps different) granularity than the uid. for instance, if i issue su, i become root and my uid changes to 0. but i want to keep my afs permissions since i didnt change--i am still me. if i had a pag associated with this group of processes instead of my uid the right stuff would happen. or worse, lets say i am root, uid = 0. if i authenticate to afs, all processes with uid = 0 now can use my afs permissions. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-devel
