[OpenAFS] Starting xinetd without AFS

[Derek Atkins]

Madhusudan Singh <chhabra@eecs.umich.edu> writes:

>     I found a workaround without using the dynroot option. I used quickswicth
> to switch between my pam.d/login files for the two profiles.

If you do not use -dynroot then AFS will not start properly if you are
off-net.  In other words, if you reboot while you are, say, on an
airplane, AFS will not start properly.  I'm not convinced this is the
functionality you want.

> > > 2. Connected on a home network and can access the net indirectly (through
> > > DHCP and IP Masq) ?
> >
> > Provided that your IP Masq UDP Timeouts are large enough, this should
> > work fine, too.  Just make sure your UDP timeouts are on the order of
> > 20 minutes or so, to make sure that you don't lose AFS Callbacks.
> >
> 
> Is there a way for AFS to use this route to locate the AFS server ? I expect
> not as reverse process to IP Masq would not work.

I'm not sure I understand the question.

> Actually, I was a member of this list about 7-8 months ago and sent you a few
> emails the way you suggest above. You were quite annoyed at my sending you
> copies of the emails :)

That was not me.  That was Derrick.

-derek

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