[OpenAFS] why PAGs?

Thomas Kula kula@tproa.net
Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:30:27 -0500


On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 10:18:38PM +0000, Simon Wilkinson wrote:
> 
> On 1 Mar 2010, at 22:12, Chas Williams (CONTRACTOR) wrote:
> 
> >In message <xuu2hbozn7np.fsf@gentzen.megacz.com>,Adam Megacz writes:
> >>to UNIX for a moment, if we assume that there is a local userid for
> >>every PTS identity, are PAGs really necessary?  Even for
> >>something like
> >
> >because sometimes i am me, and sometimes i am not (root)
> 
> ... and sometimes, when I am root, I don't want other people who are
> root to end up being me on AFS, just because I typed aklog.
> 

And, heck, sometimes when I'm me I don't want other windows where I'm
also me to have the same AFS credentials.

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