[wplug] Discuss: Networking in an insecure world

Zachary Uram netrek at gmail.com
Thu May 5 23:54:23 EDT 2005


On 5/5/05, James O'Kane <jo2y at midnightlinux.com> wrote:
> 
> Yes to both, with some provisos. You can setup your own cell and you're
> encouraged to share the names of your db servers for inclusion in the
> shared list available for download and bundled in the distributions.
> You can see /afs/andrew.cmu.edu, but if you don't have a token (like an
> account) in that cell, you won't be able to see everything. The AFS
> permission model is more tuneable and there is an anonymous group called
> system:anyser.

Ok.

> For a server? No. For a client? Yes. However, AFS was originally written
> before the afs of laptops.

Can I access the various cells if I just have an AFS client? Is there
way install just the client?


Zach

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