[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

chas williams chas@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Thu, 17 Apr 2003 08:59:19 -0400


In message <20030417124452.GC4348@gw.silicide.dk>,jon+openafs@silicide.dk write
s:
>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.

because PAGs should be associated with process groups, not just per user.
you might want to use different permissions (such as admin) while also
using your ordinary user permissions elsewhere on the same machine.

that being said, i think it would be enough to produce a mapping between
PAGs and the process group leader's pid, uid, and start_time.  start_time
wouldnt be necessary if you could track when a process group ended but
alas that is not possible.