Thomas Kula <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 12:46:23AM +0000, Simon Wilkinson wrote: > > We're currently (on opeanfs-devel) discussing a new mechanism for > > storing tokens in the kernel - this new mechanism is required to > > support new security layers such as rxgk and rxk5. There have been a > > significant number of posters advocating removing the 'change the > > PAG of my parent' feature, which is used by aklog -setpag, amongst > > others. A process would still be able to change its own PAG.
> I'd dearly love to hear from folks who have a need for this > functionality that can't be solved through some other process --- > I don't think I've ever used this feature. It's always felt > weird to me, and given that it does not consistently work I'd > argue for it's removal. I would think that the use case here is for people who can not modify their "login" program, so "aklog -setpag" in a login script does "the next best thing". John _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
