[OpenAFS-devel] Re: patch: make jafs work again (at least the libadmin portion)

[Matt Benjamin]

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Seems like lot of overlap with Umich/Marcus direction, including the
remctl piece, I think.

Marcus, is that the direction web afs admin automation at U of M is
going as well?  (This may be the place where I'm supposed to be asking
Ziba.)

Matt

Adam Megacz wrote:
> Matt Benjamin <matt@linuxbox.com> writes:
>> I have wondered whether either is necessary.  For most operations,
>> libadmin doesn't need a kernel.
> 
> Sure, but AFAIK it is the only way to get programmatic access to the
> "fs" command suite (like "fs la").  The two near-term projects I'm
> interested in using this for are:
> 
>   - "transitive fs la" and some other ACL-troubleshooting tools for
>     novices
> 
>   - a java-remctld backend that lets anybody with "a" rights on the
>     root directory of a volume perform "vos release" on it
> 
> So, I'm hoping for something with the ability to read ACLs from
> directories; it seems like I need that for both projects.
> 


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