On Monday, April 10, 2006 06:39:25 PM +0100 Jose Calhariz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
AFS has an advantage over some other network filesystems: a pathname
that contains @sys as a component can point to different directories
on different platforms. So if you need to keep, say, your
$HOME/.mozilla/plugins/ directories system-specific you can just
"ln -s @sys/plugins $HOME/.mozilla/" (and create the required
subdirectories).
I have think about it, but I would like to know if anyone is using it,
and how are using it for anything diferent that bin dirs.
Yes; people use @sys for a variety of things every day. There's nothing
special about binaries, you can use the same technique for anything that's
different per-platform. That's what it's for.
> But the University is implementing a new AFS cell, and is considering
> a different design. Give full permissions to the root of the user's
> volume and place inside the special directories.
There is an AFS-specific difference here: the owner of the root of a
volume can always obtain full access to directories in the volume.
This might save you a few support calls (if the users involved have
at least half a clue, which is by no means guaranteed).
I believe that AFS volumes don't have ownership, authorization is only
regulated by ACLs and the three bits of read, write and execute.
Believe whatever you want, but that doesn't change reality.
AFS volumes _do_ have ownership, and the owner of a volume always has the
ability to search directories and change ACL's in that volume, no matter
what you set the ACL's to.
-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sr. Research Systems Programmer
School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA
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