[OpenAFS-devel] New subcommand for pts

[Neulinger, Nathan]

> >=20
> > It can't be done atomically, because the ptserver only=20
> provides interfaces=20
> > to add or remove a single group membership for a single=20
> user at a time.
> >=20
> > Why does it belong in 'pts', instead of in a script?
>=20
> yes that's true , and this is our problem, we have to fork a=20
> binary , authenticate, .... for each add or remove.=20
> this takes to long in a script and we have run time problems=20
> updating a big number of changes in a bulk within a given time.=20
> i think this is a function which makes live easier for admins=20
> in a big environment=20

At one point, I started work on adding a new RX call that would allow
bulk setting of pts memberships/etc., but never had enough priority to
go further on it, and now that we're moving away from AFS (not my
choice), it's likely I'll never do much withit.

I think at one point I put in a request for a new opcode, but never got
any further.

That would be the way I would recommend making this change - get a bulk
operation call implemented so it can be done efficiently and atomicly.=20

-- Nathan