[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

Nathan Neulinger nneul@umr.edu
17 Apr 2003 08:00:02 -0500


> why would a suggestion like mine give away your tokens? Unless there
> was a bug. One could make a tree for each user to store the data in,
> then 2 users should have 0 chance of being mixed up.
> 

You assume that 1 user = 1 token. In sites that use afs heavily, there
can be be 1 token shared by processes with multiple different uids, and
multiple independent PAGs, each with different tokens, and sometime not
the same tokens.

-- Nathan

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