[2193] in Info-AFS_Redistribution
Re: Irritating feature of afs login
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer C)
Wed Nov 17 07:06:58 1993
To: "Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Cc: ccprl@cranfield.ac.uk, info-afs@transarc.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Nov 93 09:48:05 EST." <4gttOZO00VpZM3z0w=@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 93 09:25:44 GMT
From: "Peter Lister, Cranfield Computer Centre" <P.Lister@cranfield.ac.uk>
> Is this a hack? I have the MIT Kerberos login which came with the V4
> patch 10 distribution, and while I had intended to hack it to do aklog,
> I hadn't seen a version which already did... Or is this the DECathena
> version?
DECathena login runs attach, the MIT tool which mounts the a user's
locker, before trying to get at the user's home directory. If attach
finds (via Hesiod and the Moira database) that the user is in AFS, it
runs aklog. As far as I am aware, the functionality of running
attach/aklog is a part of MIT login; DECathena login is not that different.
Since our users are in AFS, attach's only useful function is to run
aklog, so our local version of attach is just a shell script which runs
aklog, amongst other things.
Peter Lister Email: p.lister@cranfield.ac.uk
Computer Centre, Cranfield University Voice: +44 234 754200 ext 2828
Cranfield, Bedfordshire MK43 0AL UK Fax: +44 234 750875
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