[OpenAFS-devel] Bug in OpenAFS-1.2.2

[Alf Wachsmann]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Nickolai Zeldovich wrote:
> > I added an additional entry in my CellServDB file for the cell "slac"
> > which is just a copy of the entry for cell "slac.stanford.edu".
>
> That's a little broken, because you'll be authenticated to only one
> of those two cells, generating user confusion (if you access files
> via /afs/slac.stanford.edu, you're authenticated, but if you access
> them via /afs/slac, you're not).
>
> If you feel like rebuilding from source, you can try my patch that
> adds user-configurable cell aliases:
>   /afs/athena.mit.edu/user/k/o/kolya/p/afs/cellalias4

Will this go into the next official OpenAFS release 1.2.3 as noted
in your patch?

I would love to see it there.

-- Alf.

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