[OpenAFS] Something like $HOME in afs?

[John Lockard]

When they log in on the Linux box, what are you using to know
what the user's home directory is (LDAP, /etc/passwd file, etc.)?
That should be your basis.

-John

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 02:43:45PM -0600, Paul Johnson wrote:
> We are running openafs 1.4.0 with Linux clients.
> 
> I want to script a process for shutdown time so that the dot files
> from the Linux $HOME directory are copied to the user's openafs space.
>  But I can't figure how to ask openafs "where is that user's space?".
> 
> Why this is a problem:
> 
> Our open afs system has users created in subgroups, as in
> 
> pols616/fred
> pols616/jane
> 
> and
> 
> pols909/bill
> pols909/jaime
> 
> Users authenticate and they can find these things under
> /afs/ku.edu/usr/pols.  If everybody were under the same directory, it
> would be easy.
> 
> --
> Paul E. Johnson
> Professor, Political Science
> 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504
> University of Kansas
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