[OpenAFS] AFS + Qmail-LDAP

Ken Hornstein kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Fri, 28 May 2004 09:28:37 -0400


>> When I create a user or a group named vmail, pts doesn't let me create
>> the other (user or group, depending on which was created first) with the
>> same name:
>
>AFS groups have nothing to do with Unix groups.  Furthermore, GIDs and
>UIDs in AFS have no required relationship with the mapping in the local
>/etc/passwd file.

One caution: there is a significant body of software that instead of
using access() does it's own permission checking based on testing the
UID of the file and the Unix mode bits.  So if your Unix UID doesn't
match your AFS uid, subtle things break.  It's not major, but you'll
save yourself some pain if they match up.

--Ken