[OpenAFS] Home directory in AFS

Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
19 Apr 2002 19:47:42 +0200


>>>>> "Derek" == Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:

    Derek> To answer your other question: yes, AFS users _MUST_ exist
    Derek> in the PTServer database in order to obtain AFS tokens.

Dang! One more place to add users to... :(

    Derek> One thing I am confused about is: how does the PAM module
    Derek> have the ability to create a new volume in AFS?  Similarly,
    Derek> if it can, why not just set the AFS acl?

>From what I know, it can't/don't. The 'pam_mkhomedir' module creates
DIRECTORIES, not VOLUMES...

I have all my users on ONE volume 'user'. I got a reply earlier (see
earlier mail's on the thread) that it should be more scalable if every
user had their own volume, but "I'm a sceptic" :)

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