[OpenAFS-devel] init script modification suggestion

[Jason Edgecombe]

Atro Tossavainen wrote:
> Derrick Brashear wrote:
>
>   
>> CellAliases file is your friend, and ameliorates this argument.
>>
>> I'd guess you're actually content with dynroot, and don't know it yet. ;)
>>     
>
> I'm getting the impression that doing that would be replacing a bit of
> configuration that's currently global and in AFS itself with something
> that is per-client and in a file on each client.  I'm not sure yet
> this is a good idea.  On the other hand, I do acknowledge the choice
> to attach the client to a particular cell rather than dynroot is also
> a configuration item in a local file on each client.
>
> How does this affect authenticating logins against AFS?  (Yes, spare
> me the argument against kaserver.  I *know*.  We might not be using
> AFS by the end of this year anyway, The Them want to replace it with
> SMB/CIFS/NFSv4/whatever.)
>
>   
To my knowledge, using dynroot+CellAliases does NOT change 
authentication at all.

Jason