[OpenAFS] PTS groups

Horst Birthelmer horst@riback.net
Mon, 29 Nov 2004 15:46:28 +0100


On Nov 29, 2004, at 3:40 PM, Todd M. Lewis wrote:

>
>
> Derek Atkins wrote:
>> Matthew Cocker <matt@cs.auckland.ac.nz> writes:
>>> v) are groups of groups possible?
>> I know there were patches available to make this happen.  I do not
>> know if they were ever merged back into the openafs mainline.
>
> Wow. Was this a server- or client-side thing? Would this cause 
> strangeness in a mixed OpenAFS/TransarcAFS environment (like ours), 
> our would groups-of-groups play nice but with limited utility on the 
> TransarcAFS clients?

I think your fileserver would be more of a problem than your client is, 
since the client doesn't actually do anything with the ptserver. 
(supposed your talking about accessing files and not managing pt 
entries)

Horst