Paul Johnson wrote: > We are running openafs 1.4.0 with Linux clients. > > I want to script a process for shutdown time so that the dot files > from the Linux $HOME directory are copied to the user's openafs space. > But I can't figure how to ask openafs "where is that user's space?". > <...> > Users authenticate and they can find these things under > /afs/ku.edu/usr/pols. If everybody were under the same directory, it > would be easy. > AFS is just a filesystem[*]. Arguably, asking it to know about users' home directories is like asking ext2 or ext3 to know about users' home directories -- it's Someone Else's Problem, and how you solve it is an administrative issue.
At my site, the actual home directory ($HOME) points straight into AFS; this is a fairly usual way of doing things. Since you *don't* do it this way, you've got some options: - Stuff this information into a directory service like LDAP - Have a single directory on AFS that has symlinks to the "real" locations of everyones' usernames - Throw together some other homegrown solution [*] - Okay, AFS is a bunch of things besides a filesystem -- but it *isn't* a directory service. _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
