[OpenAFS] AFS/UNIX attributes, home directories in AFS

[Todd M. Lewis]

Adam,

There are lots of "right" ways to set up home directories.  May I 
suggest you look through the rather old but still accurate document 
http://www.unc.edu/atn/dci/user_environment/loginscripts.html that 
describes how our home directories and login scripts work.  I'm not 
saying you should do it this way necessarily, but it's working well for us.

As for ssh and the XAUTHORITY variable, my ~/.ssh/environment is a 
symlink to ../public/environment.ssh, which is a publicly readable file 
(by virtue of it's being in my ~public directory with its 
"system:anyuser rl" ACL) that contains the single line
   XAUTHORITY=/tmp/Xauthority_12428
(12428 is my uid.)  (This was suggested last year by somebody on this 
list I believe.)  (I've never written 3 parenthetical statements in a 
row before; woo-whoo!) That way ssh creates my Xauthority file in local 
/tmp, and I can ssh into multiple hosts without them stomping on a 
single Xauthority file in my AFS home directory.  This is typical of the 
few but interesting convolutions you have to go through to get things to 
work in a distributed file system.

Happy Computing.
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