[OpenAFS-devel] Soft mounts for /afs root
Ted McCabe
ted@MIT.EDU
Thu, 14 Jun 2001 12:47:58 -0400
At 12:21 PM -0400 6/14/01, Derek Atkins wrote:
>Ted McCabe <ted@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>> I have a lot of trouble picturing how the implicit approach would
>> make sense to a user.
>
>Really? The automounter, which does implicit mounting, has been in
>wide use for many years and users seem to understand it. Similarly,
>'attach' (which is more like a manual automounter) is just as 'hard'
>to understand. Indeed, I can see arguments either way.
'attach' is explicit. I'll admit to no practical experience with the
automounter, so perhaps you have a point there.
>From a security standpoint, I think the decision to be implicit or
>explicit should be a run-time option. As a user, I'd very much like
>the implicit method. That would certainly solve the 'FileViewer'
>problem because only previously-accessed cells would show up in
>a listing of /afs.
I think the implicit method would simply replace one 'FileViewer'
problem with another, more serious problem; namely how does the user
make that initial, implicit access?
--Ted