[OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x

[Derek Atkins]

ok..  I sit corrected.

-derek

"Neulinger, Nathan" <nneul@umr.edu> writes:

> Exactly. And I use this all the time on our linux boxes in conjunction
> with kdump -users to clean up token accumulation. Possibly don't need it
> any more, but I know there wasn't garbage collection at some point, or
> it wasn't enabled. I do something similar on HP, though it it less
> accurate due to not having /proc. (Only used on our two interactive
> machines where it's ok to say "if you don't have a process owned by you,
> you can't have tokens for your ptsid in the kernel".
> 
> -- Nathan
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> Nathan Neulinger                       EMail:  nneul@umr.edu
> University of Missouri - Rolla         Phone: (573) 341-4841
> Computing Services                       Fax: (573) 341-4216
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chaskiel M Grundman [mailto:cg2v@andrew.cmu.edu] 
> > Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 1:55 PM
> > To: OpenAFS-info@openafs.org
> > Subject: Re: [OpenAFS] OpenAFS on Linux 2.5.x
> > 
> > 
> > --On Thursday, April 17, 2003 14:38:36 -0400 Derek Atkins 
> > <warlord@MIT.EDU>
> > wrote:
> > 
> > > I do not think you want to be able to join an existing pag. 
> >  That would
> > > be a potential security violation.  One of the benefits of 
> > PAGs is that
> > > even 'root' can't just join one (without additional kernel 
> > hacking)...
> > No kernel hacking required. if you setgroups a list that 
> > includes magic pag
> > groups at the end, you can join any pag you want (setgroups 
> > is root only,
> > of course)
> > _______________________________________________
> > OpenAFS-info mailing list
> > OpenAFS-info@openafs.org
> > https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
> > 
> _______________________________________________
> OpenAFS-info mailing list
> OpenAFS-info@openafs.org
> https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info

-- 
       Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory
       Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board  (SIPB)
       URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/    PP-ASEL-IA     N1NWH
       warlord@MIT.EDU                        PGP key available