[wplug] Discuss: Networking in an insecure world

[Brandon Kuczenski]

On Thu, 5 May 2005, James O'Kane wrote:

> On Thu, 5 May 2005, Zachary Uram wrote:
>> 
>> Can anyone set up their own cell and does it give you access to the
>> other cells (/afs/andrew.cmu.edu, /afs/athena.mit.edu etc..)?
>
> 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.
>

I still haven't figured out how to give access to my account [on 
andrew.cmu.edu] to people who are not currently members of the 
andrew.cmu.edu cell.  Part of that is due to the fact that...

>
> But be warned that there a steaper learning curve compared to NFS or samba.
>

I've also been unable to find manual pages for either the fs or pts 
commands [which are the standard client-side ways for interacting with 
your share].  Aside from their very terse contextual help (entering "fs 
help sa", for example) and searching the web for guides written by various 
educational institutions to instruct their users, I can't find any 
documentation.  'man fs' produces irrelevant info and 'man pts' gives 
nothing.

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-Brandon