[OpenAFS-devel] Exact meaning of ViceId in VIOCSETTOK?

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Friday, January 23, 2004 09:13:43 +0100 Volker.Lendecke@SerNet.DE wrote:

> So my question: Where in the client is ViceId really used?

Nowhere.  Well, "tokens" displays it.  Set it to whatever you want.

Real IBM AFS/OpenAFS clients set it to the corresponding PTS ID, which is 
obtained by querying the ptserver.  This was originally useful because 
certain application software (particularly, AMS) used it to find out what 
your PTS ID was instead of doing the lookup directly.

Other clients set it to your current UID, or even to 0.

-- Jeffrey T. Hutzelman (N3NHS) <jhutz+@cmu.edu>
   Sr. Research Systems Programmer
   School of Computer Science - Research Computing Facility
   Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, PA