On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Harald Barth wrote:


I'm not sure I see the value of putting a file that's part of a
distributed network filesystem in a local directory.


Afs home directories and .Xauthority is a pretty good way to let
everyone on your machine read all your keystrokes.

Anything that assumes unix permissions of 600 provides sufficient
security in a world readable directory breaks badly under current AFS file permission models. (i.e acl's per directory, not file.. )

_ Booker C. Bense
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