[OpenAFS] Windows Terminal server and afs clients

[Christopher D. Clausen]

On Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:46p <jaltman@columbia.edu> wrote:
> Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday, June 15, 2004 12:35p <jaltman@columbia.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Christopher D. Clausen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Would it be possible to have a registry key that determines if
>>>> normal users can run the fs commands?  I personally do not care if
>>>> a user wants encryption or not if it is a single user system
>>>> (Windows XP, Windows 2000 Professional).  Mostly because
>>>> transfering large files with encryption on from a slow maachine
>>>> will take much longer, 4-5x in my environment.  If a user has
>>>> large quantities of data they are transfering they should have the
>>>> option to turn encryption off.  Now, if it is a multiple-user
>>>> system (Windows 2003, Windows 200 Server) where the results would
>>>> affect multiple users, the administrators should determine if
>>>> encryption is on or not.
>>>
>>> How about?
>>>
>>> RUNAS /USER:Administrator fs.exe .....
>>
>> I don't know about you, but I don't give my users the Administrator
>> password, even on their own machine.  That would defeat the purpose
>> of them not being administrators in the first place.
>
> How about a Group you can add users to if you want to have them run
> fs.exe and afs_config.exe?

That sounds good.  That is how visual studio works with its "Debugger 
Users" group.

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